[lug] image to pdf?

[D. Stimits]

Ken Weinert wrote:
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> On Tuesday 19 Mar 2002 10:46, you wrote:
> > What would be the recommended means of taking a color image and creating
> > a pdf from it on linux? I have the image in multiple formats, though eps
> > is not one of them. Is this "a job for LaTeX"? Or some other utility?
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>         If you fall under the aladin license, take a look at pdflib - I'm currently
> using it to create PDFs from TIFF images - it can also take jpeg, png, and
> some others as input.

Good question. I'm playing with business cards, but I don't have a
business. All they advertise is me, my email address, so on. But I could
conceivably hand them to someone hoping for a job.

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>         If you'd like I can forward on my tiff specific code which does this - it
> shouldn't be hard to port to a different image type. And it may not take any
> changes at all.

I'd like to try it out, is there a download URL? Or I can accept it as
an attachment (bzip2 -9 seems to be the best compression).

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

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