tiff workflow

• requires imagemagick command line tools
• convert -density 150 SN-085.pdf SN-085.tif
• density defines resolution of output image

• requires libtiff
• tiffsplit input.tif

• edit individual files (each page should be a file) as necessary using any graphics program, such as photoshop
• since individual tiff files are not the final work product, it would be best to not use compression, since some tools do not work well with certain compression schemes

• requires libtiff

ls -1L *.tif | while read file;do
tiff2pdf -p letter -o "${file}".pdf "${file}"
done

• requires imagemagick command line tools
• convert -adjoin x*.tif output.tif

• (requires libtiff) tiffcp -c lzw x*.tif output2.tif
  • this example uses the -c flag, which is set to lzw compression for much smaller files
• (requires pdftk) pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf
  • this example does not include compression, so with uncompressed tif images, the file size is very large