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Subject: Re: Postscript to TIFF conversion
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 21:28:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Christoph Strozyk <chris@chome.ruhr.de>
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> 
> 
> > Postscript to TIFF?
> 
> You may wish to check out Ghostscript from Aladdin Enterprises,
> available as GNU Ghostscript 2.6 (under the GNU licence), or as
> Aladdin Ghostscript (current version is 3.12). The latter supports
> Postscript Level 2 but must be licensed if it is to be used for
> commercial purposes.  Both are able to convert a Postscript file into
> a multi-image TIFF-G3 (at least, not sure about G4).

I wrote a tiff driver for Ghostscript which uses libtiff and
supports any compression libtiff provides. Please send further
questions on this to chris@quicksys.net.
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