tiff to pdf in bulk

[Jim Cornette]

Chris Grau wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:18 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>I have a substantial amount of scanned tiff files that I would like to 
>>do in bulk vs one file at a time. I don't usually do any scripting and
>>  would like to know where I would find out how to do this for creating 
>>the files all at once.
>>
>>Pointing to samples would be fine or man or info pages related to 
>>creating file.pdf from file.tif would be helpful.
> 
> 
> If you have the libtiff RPM installed (and you probably do), you could
> whip up a quick one-liner (in bash):
> 
> for i in *.tif; do tiff2pdf $i > `basename $i .tif`.pdf; done
> 
> I don't know what the quality is like.  I just ran a quick test to see
> if such a program existed.  Hope that helps.
> 
> -chris
> 

Thanks! The quality of the tiff files is poor, so degradation is not a 
large concern. I checked a few converted files using tiff2pdf on a one 
file at a time and the degradation was not an issue.

This one liner will do what I want to do.

Jim

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