[pdftex] How to include multi-page CCITT Group4 TIFF images?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I have always regarded TIFF as a loose collection of formats, and don't 
expect software to be able to read them.  After all, some digital cameras 
even have their raw files in TIFF.  So use something else to convert 
them, e.g. see

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2002-January/002146.html

Since then the `suboptimal' support for TIFF has been removed in 1.10a:
the NEWS file says

- The support for the inclusion of tif images has been removed as it was
  of limited use (it worked only for gray-scale and rgb images) and
  produced wrong results (all other images types where treated as rgb
  images).  Tif images can be converted on *nix on-the-fly to pngs with 
  the help of ImageMagick, epstopdf.sty or pdftex.def v0.4 or newer, and 
  thisrule: 
   \DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `basename #1.tif`.png}

BTW, Google found the answers ....



On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I checked the FAQ and this question has no answer there. I tried the way 
> suggested by the PDF User Manual:
> 
> \documentclass[pdftex,a4paper]{book}
> \usepackage{pdfpages}
> \begin{document}
> \pdfximage{Panin-G4.tif}\pdfrefximage\pdflastximage
> \end{document}
> 
> and I get an error:
> 
> Error: pdflatex (file Panin-G4.tif): unknown type of image
>  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
> 
> I use TeXLive2003 distribution and the image looks like this:
> 
> $ identify -verbose Panin-G4.tif
> TIFF Directory at offset 0x8
>   Subfile Type: multi-page document (2 = 0x2)
>   Image Width: 1200 Image Length: 1800
>   Resolution: 300, 300 pixels/inch
>   Bits/Sample: 1
>   Compression Scheme: CCITT Group 4
>   Photometric Interpretation: min-is-white
>   FillOrder: msb-to-lsb
>   Artist: "1996-98 AccuSoft Inc., All rights reserved"
>   Date & Time: "2004: 3:04 02:42:57"
>   Software: "ImageGear Version:  6.06.033"
>   Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs
>   Samples/Pixel: 1
>   Rows/Strip: 1800
>   Planar Configuration: single image plane
>   Page Number: 0-548
> 
> .... (and all other pages up to 548 like the above).
> 
> What is the correct way of inserting such TIFF files at a given resolution 
> (300dpi) in PDF, one page per PDF page?
> 
> Kind regards
> Tigran
> 
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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