Re: Problem with tif images captured from a scanner

From: David Efflandt (efflandt_at_xnet.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:08:13 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:42:48, Madhusudan Singh
<spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
> A few weeks ago, I scanned a set of SEM images on a Mac OSX connected
> scanner and saved them as tif files. I transferred these files to my Debian
> laptop, and tried converting them to .png images using :
>
> convert $1.tif $1.png
>
> Now when I include these in my tex document and run pdflatex, it completely
> messes up my PDF bookmarks (if I replace these converted png images with
> some vanilla png images, everything is fine). I can still view and print
> the document, but the electronic form of the document is a mess.
>
> If I try to view these tif files, with xv, it quits with segmentation
> fault. kuickview does show the images but with a slew of errors in the
> console log.

Have you tried loading the tif files into The Gimp, and saving them as
png? I have no idea if that will work, but worth a shot. 

-- 
David Efflandt