Best way to convert pdf files to tiff files

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gyurisc picture gyurisc · Sep 16, 2008 · Viewed 152k times · Source

I have around 1000 pdf filesand I need to convert them to 300 dpi tiff files. What is the best way to do this? If there is an SDK or something or a tool that can be scripted that would be ideal.

Answer

Aeon picture Aeon · Sep 16, 2008

Use Imagemagick, or better yet, Ghostscript.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf2/#N101C2 has an example for imagemagick:

convert foo.pdf pages-%03d.tiff

http://www.asmail.be/msg0055376363.html has an example for ghostscript:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=a.tif foo.pdf -c quit

I would install ghostscript and read the man page for gs to see what exact options are needed and experiment.

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