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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 >> >> -- >> Aaron Addison >> Unix Administrator >> W. E. B. Du Bois Library UMass Amherst >> 413 577 2104 >> >> >> >> 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 >> > >