TIFF/PDF To Postscript Converter for Linux?

Munbuns writes: "Just a quick question for everyone out there. Does anyone know of an easy to use TIFF/PDF to Postscript converter for Linux? I'm working on a project at my University in which I need some sort of program to convert at the least PDF files to Postscript, but TIFF conversion would be a plus as well. Any help would be appreciated." If there's not, this is a tool that thousands of people would like to see.

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pdf2ps

[Anonymous Coward]

Do a google for 'pdf2ps' and 'tiff2ps'

http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/PDF/pdf2ps is a web site that will do the first for you.

Ghostscript also comes with useful software.

PDF to PS?

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy Jebus, Timothy, do you not use Linux? pdf2ps installs with even the Windows version of Ghostscript!

Do Your Research Before Asking The Question

[Anonymous Coward]

libtiff (http://www.libtiff.org/) comes with a tiff2ps utility.

[Free beer] Acrobat Reader for Linux/Solaris will convert PDF to PS level 2 or 3.

xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/) will convert PDF to PS.

This is just off the top of my head.

tCS/BB

Re:Do Your Research Before Asking The Question

[mrfiddlehead]

Aren't you a fuckin' genius.

Re:Adobe Acrobat for Linux will convert PDF files

[Bake]

Does too!!!

It just requires a small patch and you're all set.

This is at least what I did 2-3 years ago when I received an encrypted pdf file.

This is a link to the site where I got my patch.

GIMP for TIFF - PS

[XoXus]

Everyone else has answered PDF->PS, but no TIFF->PS so far...

The GIMP can load TIFFs (though for Debian, grab 'gimp-nonfree'); it can also export to PostScript, so TIFF->PS is there.

David.

Re:GIMP for TIFF - PS

[XoXus]

Oops... just realised that TIFF->PS has already been covered.

Oh, well. No-one mentioned the GIMP.

David.

Did you even try to find a solution?

[His name cannot be s]

Sheesh. Of all the slop that gets posted on /. I can't figure out what magic fscking criteria this question made in order to get accepted. Duh! use FRESHMEAT.NET to find this sort of thing out. Maybe just grab a brain and first check out ghostscript. Fsck!!!

Don't forget convert

[E-prospero]

Convert, a part of the ImageMagick suite, is well worth a gander.

With it, you can convert almost any graphics/text format to almost any other format. Sometimes, it does the conversion by outsourcing to another program (such as ghostview), but most are handled internally. The results are generally pretty good.

Syntax would be: convert blah.tiff blah.ps (change the extensions if you want different conversions)

ImageMagick RPM's are usually included in a base RedHat install; it shouldn't be too hard to get a deb or tarball package.

Russ %-)

Careful with ghostscript!

[dead_penguin]

Unless recent changes in crypto laws have changed this, you'll need to patch ghostscript to be able to deal with encrypted pdf files. This isn't a problem very often, but I remember gs choking on a pdf file because of this in the past more than once.

Re:WordPerfect?

[schon]

yes - send the output to a postscript printer that saves to a file instead of sending to printer port.

Technically yes.. but if you ever want to convert it to something else, not really..

I tried doing this a few times to make Hylafax cover pages (all of our existing coversheets are in WP or MSWord format).. after 'printing', there was no text (as in _no_ text) in the ps document it generated.. all of the text got converted to line commands..

Thus printing to a file will work, but only if you never need to do anything with the file but print it..

pdf2ps

[Mr. Slippery]

Ghostscript includes pdf2ps. libtiff provides tiff2ps and fax2ps. Both are shipped as part of Red Hat, RPMs available in the usual places.

Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/

Adobe Acrobat for Linux will convert PDF files ...

[dougmc]

Acrobat can create postscript files.

It can even do it programmatically -- no clicking required.

acroread -toPostScript < file.pdf > file.ps

it's that simple.

And ghostscript can do it too, but it can't handle the encrypted (yuk!) PDF files. As for tiff files, that's already been answered.

Printing to file (was:WordPerfect?)

[qkan]

I just would like to add that in order to create a nice .ps file you'd better use some quality printer drivers, like something from Adobe itself. I routinely use this approach to convert Word documents to .ps. PSv2 output from Word looks nice and imports happily to Xerox publishing software, for example. (Yes, I'm talking about Win; yes, I did notice the original question was about Linux :)

PDF/TIFF to PS in windows

[Utopia]

Under Windows this is easy.
Install a postscript printer driver
and print to a file.

WordPerfect?

[danpbrowning]

Can word perfect write Postscript files? I know it reads/writes PDF files, so if it can do Postscript, that would be one solution.

image magick

[peccary]

you want the "convert" tool in image magick and ghostscript. Alternatively, you could use acrobat reader for the pdf->ps part.
Finally, you could find all of this quickly with google.

Why? Any decent PostScript will take PDF

[Hairy_Potter]

At least any PS Level 3 compatible RIP should intepret a PDF.

Are you looking for dead tree output, or you just want inscrutable PS files?

Ghostscript for PDF

[raju1kabir]

With recent versions of ghostscript, you can use a line like this to convert myfile.pdf to myfile.ps:

gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=myfile.ps myfile.pdf