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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: tiff ---> postscript
Message-ID: <869@wet.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 89 00:24:48 GMT
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Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In <4417@ur-cc.UUCP> mitd_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
	(Mitch Diamond) writes:
>    I am looking for a program which will convert Tif files to postscript.
>if anyone knows where I can get one (for unix) can you let me know.

In article <102880002@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> patti@hpcvlx.cv.hp.como
	(Patti Richey - CWO (X3939)) writes:
>Inset Systems Inc. makes a software package called HiJaak ...
>It can convert scanner-type tif to encapsulated postscript and sells for
>about $100.

HiJaak sounds like highway robbery!  A few months ago I posted a
UNIX program to comp.sys.next that converts TIFF (we use an Apple
Scanner to produce grayscale TIFF) to EPS.  You can FTP it from
sutro.sfsu.edu.  It shouldn't be too hard to modify if you have
special needs.  I made some "simplifying assumptions"--i.e. that
we're in 680x0 land, but even that's easy to deal with.

					-=EPS=-