rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu (R. P. C. Rodgers) (01/10/90)
Dear Net Colleagues,
Apologies if this question has come up before--I am not a reader of this
group; if you can help, please send mail to the address below rather than
replying to the net.
I have a TIFF file and would like to get it into PostScript form. The TIFF
file was created on a Mac II using some Apple scanning software, then
transferred to a UNIX machine using the binary ftp mode of NCSA telnet.
I have tried using tif2ps and tif2rast (closely related programs by Andreas
Lampen and William Wu, posted to comp.sources.misc; the latter transforms TIFF
to Sun rasterfile format). These programs both die with the message:
tif2ps(GtData): fread error
tif2ps(scantif): can't read # of entries
tif2ps(tif2ps): cannot read file
I have also tried the tifftopgm tool in the recently released pbmplus
("portable bitmap plus") kit of Jef Poskanzer, which reports:
tifftopgm: unknown byte order: 0x0005
Unfortunately, I don't know *ANYTHING* about TIFF files. A colleague reports
that Mac files have 2 logical forks, one containing data, and the other
containing "resources" (code, or pictures, etc.). He suggested this appeal to
the net. He also suggests that perhaps we need to use "macget" to transfer
the files over a serial connection, seperating the data and resource files in
the process?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Cheerio, Rick Rodgers (rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu)
R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D. (415)476-8910 (work) 664-0560 (home)
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