[WEB4LIB] Graphics File Conversion

[Tim Tripp]

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.
> 

Bill,

Since you already have the distiller, I'm assuming you've also got Acrobat
Exchange.  All you need to do is open Exchange, and under the File menu,
choose Import, and then Image.  Point it at your tif file and it will convert
it to PDF.  I used this successfully for converting a lot of internal
documents for our Intranet which had been scanned into multipage tif files
years ago for publishing on our LAN.

As always,

Tim

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