[WEB4LIB] Graphics File Conversion

[TMGB]

I don't know if this is the same thing your refering to in distiller but there
is an option on the Adobe Acrobat installation cd to install a pdf print
driver.  Then you can use any software that will read tiff files and print to a
pdf format.  IrfanView32 is a good "freeware" viewer for several graphics
formats with some other useful options.  It is freeware for personal use and a
whopping $10.00 registration for any other use.  This little program is well
worth its price.  Even reads audio files.

http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474
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>From the web page:
supported file formats:

          BMP (read/write) - Windows or OS/2 Bitmap
          DIB (read) - Windows or OS/2 DIB
          RLE (read) - Windows RLE
          JPG (read/write) - JPEG Image
          GIF (read/write) - Compuserve GIF
          PNG (read/write) - Portable Network Graphic
          PCX (read/write) - Zsoft Paintbrush
          DCX (read) - Multipage PCX
          TIF (read/write) - Tagged Image File Format
          TGA (read) - Truevision TARGA
          RAS (read) - Sun Raster Image
          ICO (read/write) - Windows Icon
          CUR (read) - Windows Cursor
          ANI (read) - Windows Animated Cursor
          PSD (read) - Adobe PhotoShop file
          AVI (read) - Video for Windows
          MPEG (read) - MPEG Movie (Active Movie required)
          MOV (read) - Apple QuickTime Movie (Active Movie required)
          WAV, MID, RMI (read) - Sound files
          WMF (read) - Windows Metafile
          EMF (read) - Enhanced Metafile
          IFF (read) - Amiga Interchange File Format
          PBM (read) - Portable Bitmap
          PGM (read) - Portable Greymap
          PPM (read) - Portable Pixelmap
          EPS (read) - Encapsulated PostScript (TIFF preview)
          CLP (read) - Windows Clipboard
          CAM (read) - Casio digital camera (with JPEG)
          PCD (read) - Kodak Photo CD

     Preview, Drag & Drop Support, fast Directory View (fast moving through
directory), Print Support, Scan (TWAIN) Support, Slideshow, Batch
     conversion, change the color depth, Capturing, Cut/Crop ...

     Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware Messages like "I Agree" ...
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look ma, no dll's



Thomas

Wilfred Drew wrote:

> Is anyone aware of a utility for converting files directly from TIFF format
> to Adobe PDF format?
> I can do the conversions by turning on our Minolta Scanner and bring the
> files into the EPIC 300 scanning software.  I then have to have adobe
> distiller running in the background.  I then must print to a print driver
> that creates a prn file that distiller converts to pdf.  This process is
> getting to be too time consuming and also ties up the scanner even though I
> am not doing any scanning.  Any suggestions?  It must run on a Windows 95
> environment.
>
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> President, SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA)
> SUNY College of Ag. & Tech.;   P.O. Box 902;  Morrisville, NY 13408-0902
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