Re: TIFF to PDF

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:11:14AM -0500, Harold Crouch wrote:
> I tried piping the two commands...
> 
>   tiff2ps -a MSDS7009.TIF  |  ps2pdf
> 
> ...but it didn't work.  I assume that it failed because ps2pdf didn't
> have an input filename and therefore couldn't generate an output
> filename.  I don't see any way to specify an output filename for
> ps2pdf without preceeding it with an input filename, so it looks like
> piping the two commands doesn't simplify anything.  But this is no big
> deal.

#!/bin/sh

set -e # Stop on errors.
set -C # noclobber

for file in *.TIF ; do
    ps="`echo $file | sed 's/TIF$/ps/'`"
    tiff2ps -a "$file" > "$ps"
    ps2pdf "$ps"
done

> If I were a programmer (which I'm not) I think that I would want to
> create a loop of some type that... 
> 
>  1.  started with n=7000, 
>  2.  incremented by 1, 
>  3.  checked to see if the input file existed,
>  4.  converted the input file if it *did* exist, or
>  5.  jumped to the top if the input file did *not* exist, and
>  6.  stopped at n=7201. 

If you want to get that specific...  (The above should work though,
I'd think.)

#!/bin/sh

set -e
set -C

n=7000
while [ $n -lt 7202 ] ; do
    if [ -f MSDS$n.TIF ] ; then
        ps="`echo $file | sed 's/TIF$/ps/'`"
        tiff2ps -a "$file" > "$ps"
        ps2pdf "$ps"
    fi
    (( n++ ))
done

Steve
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