The PDF file format is now commonly used to distribute and view electronic documents. The popularity of the format has grown because you can save your document from a variety of different software applications (MS Word, MS Excel, etc.). You can then send your PDF document and guarantee that your recipient will be able to view the document with Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. Also, since PDFs cannot be edited, you can rest assured that when you send your document that it will remain as it was when you sent it.
Another common file format used for electronic documents is the TIFF file format. It was developed in the mid-80s and was designed to deal with volumes of paper documents. These paper documents were scanned and saved as TIFFs to be stored electronically. The TIFF format became and is still commonly used for archiving documents. Since the TIFF format grew to become the most common format used for archiving, the legal industry and government agencies often require that documents are saved as TIFFs. This means that you may need to convert PDF documents into TIFFs.
PDF to TIFF file conversion is often accomplished by using a printer driver. If you are an individual user only converting a few files, this method is sufficient. However, if you have multiple users dealing with a large number of documents and images across your organization, using a tool to convert your images is a more efficient method.
Snowbound Software’s RasterMaster for the Java Platform provides samples to allow you to build applications that automatically convert from PDF to TIFF. Two samples included in the product both in the full and evaluation versions are simpleconvertionDS and converter.
-Patty
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