[Wylug-help] viewing multi-page tifs

Dan Walker danielwalker at fastmail.fm
Mon Jun 23 16:08:10 BST 2003


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On Monday 23 Jun 2003 09:34, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been forwarded an email that was created using a fax-to-email gateway
> and the emails contains a single multi-page TIF file.
>
> What can I use to view the document under Linux.  So far, everything I've
> tried only lets me see page one.
Well,  I confess I generally find:

tiff2ps -a -h11 -w8 yourfilename.tif | ps2pdf - yourfile.pdf
acroread yourfile.pdf

works reasonably well.

Not ideal, I agree.
Should be fine for one-off.



Dan

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Daniel Walker
'Physics is like sex; sure, it may occasionally give some
practical results, but that's not why we do it"
- - Richard Feynman
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