Actually, I'm mistaken. It didn't ever work. :-(. I do get a tiff, but not
the original. I looked at the wrong files.


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> This works sometimes. Well, it does give me a new tiff file from the pdf
> all of the time, but it is not always anywhere near the same size as the
> original tiff. My guess is that maybe there is a flag or somethign that
> woulf help. Here is what I get with one fil:
>
>
> ecorrado@ecorrado:~/Desktop/test$ convert -compress none A001a.tif
> A001a.pdf
> ecorrado@ecorrado:~/Desktop/test$ convert -compress none A001a.pdf
> A001b.tif
> ecorrado@ecorrado:~/Desktop/test$ ls -al
> total 361056
> drwxrwxr-x 2 ecorrado ecorrado     4096 Apr 26 17:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 ecorrado ecorrado    20480 Apr 26 16:54 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ecorrado ecorrado 38497046 Apr 26 17:07 A001a.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ecorrado ecorrado 38178650 Apr 26 17:07 A001a.tif
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ecorrado ecorrado  5871196 Apr 26 17:07 A001b.tif
>
>
> In this case, the two tif files should be the same size. They are not even
> close. Maybe there is a flag to convert (besides compress) that I can use.
> FWIW: I tried three files/ 2 are like this. The other one, the resulting
> tiff is the same size as the original.
>
> Edward
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Aaron Addison <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Imagemagick's convert will do it both ways.
>>
>> convert a.tiff b.pdf
>> convert b.pdf a.tiff
>>
>> If the pdf is more than one page, the tiff will be a multipage tiff.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 16:08 -0400, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I have a need to batch convert many TIFF images to PDF. I'd then like
>> to be
>> > able to discard the TIFF images, but I can only do that if I can create
>> the
>> > original TIFF again from the PDF. Is this possible? If so, using what
>> tools
>> > and how?
>> >
>> > tiff2pdf seems like a possible solution, but I can't find a
>> corresponding
>> > "pdf2tif" program that reverses the process.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Edward
>>
>
>