I found a package called panda at www.stillhq.com//panda. This would be perfect for my needs but I cannot install it on my machine because his setup files have errors in them. I also found another command line utility whch also would suite me called "tiff2pdf". But unfortunately you need a licence in order to use it. I found another oowriter command line utility which uses open office writer. You set up a PDF converter printer using the spadmin program. This works fine but is very slow and it also does not convert multi page tiff files to multi page pdf files. I need a command line utility that is free and reasonably fast that will do the following:
1. Convert 1 tiff file to 1 pdf
2. Convert multi page tiff to a multi page pdf

Has anyone any ideas and also it needs to be a command line utility.........
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
James

Maybe this thread might help.

One of the most sensible aproaches would be to create a
cups-backend and create a PDF-Printer object. Any application
that can print can then create PDFs, too. Works well for me,
the "print outs" end up in /tmp/<username>-<timestamp>.pdf


Cheers,
Tink

Is that fast and does it print multi page files also and is the performance good. I have installed the pdf printer backend on my Fedora core machine. Cannot seem to add this printer and print to file........

Yes, on both accounts. PDFs get created as quickly as it
would take to spool to an actual printer, but I have only used
it with mostly text documents, with few (and small) images if
any at all.

No idea where FC installs its stuff - sorry.


Cheers,
Tink