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faetzminator

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Registered: 2007-09-18

Posts: 7

tiff2pdf binary gone from extra-libtiff

Hi folks!

Not sure if I'm at the right place with you guys.

I've just noticed tiff2pdf binary is gone from PATH.
Same for your manpage: https://man.archlinux.org/man/tiff2pdf.1.en .
Other binaries still there from extra/libtiff: https://man.archlinux.org/search?q=tiff2pdf&go=Go .
I got the package libtiff-4.6.0-1 installed.

The man page at libtiff.org yet there: http://www.libtiff.org/man/tiff2pdf.1.html

Anyone got a clue who/why removed?
And maybe a hint for a similar binary, supporting some compression (using JPG compression now).

Thanks in advance
faetzminator

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 16,531

Re: tiff2pdf binary gone from extra-libtiff

tiff2pdf was removed in [1] with the swicth from autotools which includes unsupported tools by default [2] to cmake which does not [3][4][5][6].

[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 39ba0e0bca
[2] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/bl … e=tags#L63
[3] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/bl … e=tags#L54
[4] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/bl … =tags#L147
[5] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/co … 5e4d9f56ef
[6] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/co … 2c80b1ac45

faetzminator

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Registered: 2007-09-18

Posts: 7

Re: tiff2pdf binary gone from extra-libtiff

Oh that's bad news!
loqs, thanks a lot for the details.
Will find some other way then.

faetzminator

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Registered: 2007-09-18

Posts: 7

Re: tiff2pdf binary gone from extra-libtiff

After quick test, seems the convert binary from ImageMagick does the trick.

tiff2pdf -j -o foo.pdf foo.tiff

to

convert -compress JPEG foo.tiff foo.pdf

May try lossless LZW compression in future :-) .

faetzminator