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To: John Daley <j.daley@arco.be>
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Subject: Re: LibTiff and ASCII2TIFF Conversion 
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  >Hello,
  >
  >As far as I can see, LibTiff does not provide a tool to convert ASCII to
  >TIFF.
  >Can someone please give a pointer to a DOS or Windows utility
  >(preferably a DLL) that can do the conversion? I have already found a
  >few printer drivers that allow you to print to a TIFF file but I would
  >like something that can be called from another program without user
  >intervention or the inconvenience of sending key codes,

I don't know any direct conversion-tool but a possible solution could 
be a pipe/batch of the following:

an ascii_to_ps filter like genscript.
then GhostScript to produce ppm
finally in the libtiff there's a ppm2tiff tool

genscript:  http://www.ngs.fi/mtr/genscript/index.html
GhostScript: http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html

Can't garantuee any performance :)

  >
  >Thanks in advance for any feedback,
  >John Daley (Belgium / Wales).

regards,
Rob vd Tillaart
Oce Technologies BV

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