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This is version 1.0 of tif2ps/tifdump, a program that converts
TIFF-files to PostScript (*).
It is written by: Andreas Lampen
Tech. Univ. Berlin, FR 5-6
Franklinstr. 28/29
D-1000 Berlin 10, West Germany
Tel: +49-30-314-73496
E-mail: andy@coma.uucp (from US: pyramid!tub!coma!andy) or
andy@db0tui62.bitnet
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Copyright (C) 1988 by the author.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute this program
without charge, provided this copyright notice is included
in the copy.
This Software is distributed on an as-is basis. There will be
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for any part of this software to work
correct. In no case will the author be liable to you for damages
caused by the usage of this software.
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This Distribution contains the files
README -- The file you are actually reading.
Makefile -- The Makefile for building and installing
the programs "tif2ps" and "tifdump"
Makefile.PC -- The MSDOS (Microsoft "make") Makefile
Shapefile -- The Shapefile for building and installing
"tif2ps" and "tifdump".
You can use this together with the "shape"
configuration management toolkit, which
will appear in the net soon.
defs.h -- general definitions
tif.h -- TIFF specific definitions
tif2ps.c -- The source file containing the main program.
scantif.c -- The front end of the converter.
genps.c -- The back end of the converter.
getopt.c -- A public domain getopt implementation.
Only needed for the PC version.
version.c -- A source file containing a routine that returns
the actual version number.
andy.tif.Z.btoa
-- A compressed TIFF file (a small picture of
the author). Use "atob" and "uncompress"
to reconstruct the file.
tif2ps.1 -- The manual page for "tif2ps" and "tifdump"
The program has been tested only with TIFF-files generated by a
HP Scanjet up to now.
It was developed on a
microVAX II running BSD 4.3
and it also runs on
Sun3 with SunOS 4.0 and on
IBM PC/AT with MS-DOS 3.20/Microsoft C 5.00.
It should be easy portable to other machines.
For installing "tif2ps" on a UNIX system, you find the installation
instructions in the Makefile. On a PC just type "MAKE MAKEFILE.PC"
(this works with Microsoft "make").
The PC version does only support TIFF files that contain at most
45000 bytes of image data. I assume this is because all image data
are read into main memory with one fread call. Up to now, I was too
lazy to fix that.
Feel free to do any modifications or improvements to the code.
If you do so, please send me your patches. I will try to introduce
your patches into further releases.
Have fun,
Andy
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(*) PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.