Conversion of TIFF to PDF with Ghostscript

Question

Could you tell me how can I convert TIFF to PDF with using Ghostscript or Postscript?

I tried to use this command:

gswin32c.exe -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=o.pdf test.tif

But it doesn't work.

It produces an error:

GPL Ghostscript 9.06 (2012-08-08)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /undefined in II*
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1910   1   3   %oparray_pop   1909   1   3   %oparray_pop   1893   1   3   %oparray_pop   1787   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 4
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Answer 1

Ghostscript reads PDF and PostScript as input, it doesn't read image formats, and in particular doesn't read TIFF. However PostScript is a programming language, so it is entirely possible to write a PostScript program to read a TIFF file (the viewgif.ps and viewjpeg.ps program supplied with Ghostscript do this for GIF and JPEG formats)

I do have a program which does this, up to a point, and which has been posted on comp.lang.postscript a few times. Its kind of large to share here (33Kb) but I can email you a copy if you are interested.