Message-ID: 389A07C6.12EB@srz-berlin.de
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@cyberstation.ca>
Subject: Re: Multipage tiff files.
From: Helge Blischke <H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 23:57:10 +0100
CC: tiff@olympiakos.com
Organization: SRZ BERLIN
References: <38995CBB.147A3CB2@cyberstation.ca>
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Alicia da Conceicao wrote:
> 
> Help:
> 
> I am receiving jfax (jfx) multipage tiff faxes by e-mail.  Now that my
> laptop is running Unix (NetBSD-ix86) I have need to be able to view
> these same tiff files that I was previously able to do using the
> Microsoft Image Viewer.
> 
> When I run "tiff2ps" on a multipage tiff image, the first page
> comes out beautifully, however none of the other pages show up.
> 
> When I run "fax2ps" on a multipage tiff image, all of the pages
> show up, but the quality of the text is so bad, that it cannot be
> read.
> 
> Is there any way with libtiff (or it tools) to proper view a multipage
> tiff image?  It would be nice to get the quality of tiff2ps with the
> multipage capability of fax2ps.
> 
> I tried running fax2tiff but got flooded with tons of error messages.
> 
> Thank you in advance.  Sincerely, Alicia.
> 
> PS. Please respond to this e-mail address (alicia@cyberstation.ca).

If you have - or could install - Ghostscript (V 3.53 or higher), you
could get a PostScript script
that converts TIFF files to EPS files. To enhance it to handle multipage
TIFFs (which it currently
does not do) would be a matter af about 1 to 2 hours. 

Drop me an e-mail if you want to get this stuff.

Helge
-- 
H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de
H.Blischke@srz-berlin.com
H.Blischke@acm.org

