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In article <1992Oct25.161215.3031@sinkhole.unf.edu>, shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
|> In article <9210191147.AA08333@mozart.aero.ufl.edu> mauricio@MOZART.AERO.UFL.EDU writes:
|> >> Does anyone know of any software that will convert .PS or .EPS files to TIFF 
|> >> images? I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
|> >
|> >	It may be commercial, but I think that Corel Draw for the PC
|> >can do that.  At least, it can (?) convert to PCX; you can then convert
|> >PCX to TIFF fairly easy.
|> 
|>    Ghostscript can convert Postscript files to PBM files.  I don't think 
|> the PBMPLUS package has pbmtotiff...so you can go from PBM -> GIF and
|> then use the ImageMagick package to do GIF -> MIFF and then MIFF -> TIFF.
|> I know, it sounds like a lot to do but I'm trying to offer you a free 
|> way to do it. ;-)  
|> 
|>   Of course, the other alternatives are to:
|> 
|>     1. Add a pbmtotiff converter to PBMPLUS (it would be nice of you to
|>        donate it to the author of the package as many others have done
|>        when they came up with new conversions).
|> 
|>     2. Write a Ghostscript driver to write to a "TIFF device."  (I like
|>        this idea...I *think* a commercial company has done this already).
|> 
|> Idea...
|> 
|>   What would be *really* nice is if someone came up with an X front-end
|> to the PBMPLUS package to automate the image format conversions. 
|> 
|> 
|> Steve Hite
|> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu


Try pnmtotiff. This program is part of PBMPLUS and can convert pbm, pgm and ppm to tiff.

Heinz-Josef Claes
University of Essen
Germany

email: claes@sparc2.ikb.uni-essen.de