About TIFF2PDF

So, I have to make a multiple page pdf document, and it’s due in two weeks. I don’t have the time or the desire to learn how to use Scribus, and my skills with inkscape aren’t up to par. But I do know a lot about The Gimp. I know it doesn’t export or save files as PDF’s, but I was determined to use The Gimp for this project. So I googled around for a plugin or loophole that would allow me to convert images to PDF’s and I stumbled upon a nice little script called tiff2pdf.

I installed it by going to the terminal:
sudo apt-get install libtiff-tools
then I saved my image as a .tif in Gimp, and changed the directory in the terminal, to the folder where I saved my image:
cd /home/myusername/Desktop
Now that I’m in the same directory as my image, I can grab it and convert it:
tiff2pdf -x 800 -y 600 -o coverpage.pdf coverpage.tif
Now, let me explain what I did with that. I typed in tiff2pdf, then the settings I wanted. My image was 800×600 pixels in The Gimp, so I set the x value with -x and then the amount of pixels I wanted as the width, 800. Then I set the -y value the same way. Then I specified the output with -o followed by the name I wanted to give to the pdf file, coverpage.pdf then the name of the file I will convert, coverpage.tif
Then I hit Enter, and the script outputs a pdf file with my specified settings, on the Desktop, with the other image.

You can create a multiple page pdf documents, by combining several tiff files, with tiffcp:
tiffcp -c none coverpage.tif coverpage2.tif cover.pdf
Here, I specified the kind of compression I want on the document with -c none, then I listed the tif files to be converted, coverpage.tif, and coverpage2.tif, then I named the output cover.pdf, and woila!

With this tool, I don’t have to worry about learning a new application in the very limited time I have.