[lug] pdf to tiff conversion

[Ken MacFerrin]

Ken MacFerrin wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>> I need to create a few tiff images of some pdf files. Is there a free
>> program for doing this? 
>>
>> TIA
> 
> If you use KDE you can use the builtin "Print to File (PDF)" printer..
> or you can setup a PDF printer within CUPS.
> 
> For a CLI, try tiff2pdf from the "tiff" package
> (http://www.libtiff.org/) or the netbpm utilities..
> 

I just realized you're trying to create tiffs from pdfs.. not the other
way around.

You can just print the pdf "to file" as a postscript doc and then use
Ghostscript "gs" to render into tiff, png, etc..
-Ken