Message-ID: Pine.SO4.4.05.9910291858330.9204-100000@scooby.simplesystems.org
To: Chris Barker <barker@ilt.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: file conversion to tiff]
From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:59:42 -0500 (CDT)
cc: tiff@olympiakos.com
In-Reply-To: <3819CEF2.3B159A86@ilt.com>
Sender: owner-tiff@olympiakos.com


On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Chris Barker wrote:

> I don't know how you would do it without a printer driver, unless you
> want to parse and understand every one of the formats you want to
> convert.

Well, you could print to a generic intermediate format like Postscript
or PDF and then convert this to TIFF using Ghostscript or ImageMagick.  
This at least avoids a special-purpose driver.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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