Convert an image to high quality PDF, Redux

In a previous post I explained how to Convert an image to PDF with Gimp, but the quality of the picture in the PDF turned out to be rather poor for printing purpose.

So here is an other way, install tiff2pdf.
On Ubuntu for instance :

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1. sudo apt-get install libtiff-tools  

sudo apt-get install libtiff-toolsThen save your image as a tiff image, then use tiff2pdf to convert it to a PDF. For example, for an A4 sized PDF :

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1. tiff2pdf -p A4  -o foo.pdf foo.tiff  

tiff2pdf -p A4 -o foo.pdf foo.tiff
For a multiple pages PDF, preprocess your TIFF files with tiffcp

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1. tiffcp foo1.tiff foo2.tiff foo3.tiff totalfoo.tiff  

tiffcp foo1.tiff foo2.tiff foo3.tiff totalfoo.tiff

Convert an image to PDF with Gimp

In order to have an image printed by a professional printing service, I had to export the image created with Gimp to a PDF file. Here is how to do that.

• With Gimp save the image as a PS file, with the right size in the option dialog box (for instance, for an A5 dimension choose 148x210 mm)


• In a terminal convert the ps file to a pdf file, with the matching size

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1. ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress  sPAPERSIZE=a5 foo.ps foo.pdf  

ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress sPAPERSIZE=a5 foo.ps foo.pdf
Update : There's an other another way that gives much better results regarding the compression ratio of the picture in the PDF, see Convert an image to high quality PDF, Redux

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