File to TIFF Converter

Murdock1979 · 07-13-2008, 05:08 PM

Hello,

For a faxing program, I need all the files in TIFF format. Accordingly, any help finding a command line program that can convert many types of files, such as plain text, MS document and excel, and OpenOffice odt files, into TIFF would be great.

Thanks,
Murdock

amani · 07-13-2008, 05:14 PM

Use imagemagick for that. Save as pdf for eg and then use that. Also check the capability of different fax s/w (10+) in Linux.

Murdock1979 · 07-13-2008, 05:43 PM

Thanks!

However, due to the constraints of some of the clients, who can only save in MS doc or xls files, I am wondering if there is some sort command line converter from doc/xls to pdf as well, which can then be converted to TIFF.

Thanks,
Murdock

simonapnic · 07-13-2008, 06:09 PM

http://synapse.wordpress.com/2008/02...f-etc-to-html/
As the URL name says, you can use Gmail to convert anything to HTML.
After that, it's a simple task of running html2image

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/P..._Download.html

Murdock1979 · 07-13-2008, 06:16 PM

Hello Simonapnic,

Using Gmail is an interesting idea, but I need something that can convert from a command line subsequent to the user submitted the fax page, since I can't demand from some of my clients to start changing which applications they enjoy using for productivity.

Murdock

jlinkels · 07-13-2008, 07:20 PM

You can use OpenOffice in command line mode to convert a *.doc or *.xls to PDF.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewto...o+command+line

If it doesn't work like expected, spend some time around on this forum to see tips and tricks. The code syntax changes a bit from one version to the next.

This is THE recommended way of converting .doc to pdf. I experienced one (at the time) undocumented bug. If you are batch processing files, you should wait until the first conversion is completed before you call OO again. I built a delay of 20 second in my loop to achieve that.

jlinkels