I scanned a sh!tload of docs and saved as tiff files, then scp'ed these across the wire to another linux box that has a windows user who needs these images. Problem is, that windows user, nor me on a windows box here can open these files?
Anyone know why, and if there is a batch image conversion I can do that wont affect the quality on the remote lniux box so I don't have to re-upload all these files?
Thanks! jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I scanned a sh!tload of docs and saved as tiff files, then scp'ed these across the wire to another linux box that has a windows user who needs these images. Problem is, that windows user, nor me on a windows box here can open these files?
Anyone know why, and if there is a batch image conversion I can do that wont affect the quality on the remote lniux box so I don't have to re-upload all these files?
I've no problem viewing tiff files, created by xsane, on a Windows system.
In any event, convert (from ImageMagick package) along with a simple shell script should do just fine.
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 05:03 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Problem is, that windows user, nor me on a windows box here can open these files?
Can you open the files on a Linux computer? If so, then the files are fine. At that point you need to find a good tiff file viewer (or whatever) for Windows. Which isn't a Linux issue, actually.
If you need a different format you could look at using imagemagick convert or maybe even something like tiff2pdf or tiff2ps depending on what you want. Once you have a pdf or ps file you could use pdftk or psnup (and psmerge and friends) to create "books" of your images, if you want.
(As an aside, I tiff2pdf as part of a handler script/program for mgetty fax management. The users get their faxes as a pdf file that's emailed to them.)
Can you open the files on a Linux computer? If so, then the files are fine. At that point you need to find a good tiff file viewer (or whatever) for Windows. Which isn't a Linux issue, actually.
Yeah, it seems whatever came out of xsane isn't compatible with the fax viewer in XP.
If you need a different format you could look at using imagemagick convert or maybe even something like tiff2pdf or tiff2ps depending on what you want. Once you have a pdf or ps file you >could use pdftk or psnup (and psmerge and friends) to create "books" of your images, if you want.
mogrify batched them into a png which worked rather nice. Thanks, jlc
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 06:25 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
it seems whatever came out of xsane isn't compatible with the fax viewer in XP.
Three guesses: It's a compressed TIFF, and the other computer doesn't support that compression scheme. You saved a grayscale or full-colour TIFF, and the other computer's viewer was expecting two bit black or white only. Some strange error during the transfer.