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How can I convert tif to pdf files?

Anonymous
2013-01-02T04:17:43+00:00

I have a tif CD with 305 pages of information and would like to know how to open it in Word as a pdf to save as a document. I have heard that you can change this as it is in Word but does not download by default when installing Office for Mac 2011. Is there a way to find this conversion to automatically change the file when viewed and downloaded. Thank you  Ralph 814

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  1. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-01-06T17:28:57+00:00

    Just to correct a minor thing Bob said, it is possible to have specially configured TIF files that contain multiple pictures. Some copy machines and other devices do this using proprietary offshoots of the file format.

    Word will display only the first picture of a multi-image TIF file. If you right-click on an inserted image of a TIF file in Word, you can choose Save As Picture and choose a different file format for the saved image (just the first one). As Bob said, using Word as a picture handling program in this situation is cumbersome and is not something Word was designed to do.

    As to software that can handle multi-image TIF files, I recommend looking into GraphicConverter, Gimp and PhotoShop and pick the one that fits your budget and has the feature set you want.

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  1. Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 434.8K Reputation points
    2013-01-02T11:56:34+00:00

    Let's clear up a few things first...

    it isn't clear what you mean by "a tif CD". Tagged Image File Format [.tif or .tiff) is an image file format -- IOW, a picture. It does not support multiple pages. There is one image/picture per file. Perhaps what you have is a CD on which 305 .tif image files are stored?

    Word doesn't open .tif files. A copy of an images in that format can be Inserted into a Word document, but to open the file you need to use a graphics program (iPhoto, Photoshop, etc.) or a compatible viewer, such as Apple's Preview. Once you open the .tif in a compatible program you can use that program's features to generate a PDF -- Whether that would involve Export, Save As or Print to create the PDF depends on the program. However...

    Word does not open PDF files, either. Again, PDF is a graphic format & Word is not a graphics editor. A single page of a PDF file can be inserted into a Word document as a picture object in the same manner as a .tif, .jpg, .png, as well as several others.

    Once an image is inserted into a Word document it can be saved as a separate image file in either of several image formats, or the entire document can be used to generate a PDF. I don't know what you may have heard but there is nothing for Mac Office that directly converts images from one file type to another. Using Word to 'convert' .tif images to PDF is the long way around & makes no sense -- it's quite unlikely that there are no other, more appropriate methods.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-04-28T19:48:01+00:00

    The best way to convert any file to PDF is by "printing the file as PDF".

    Some programs allow you to "print" files as PDF files instead of actually sending out the file into a printer, like Google Chrome. Some programs have an option to export a PDF file, like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice.

    But for the programs that can't do either, there are PDF printers that you can install in your computer, like CutePDF or PDFCreator. You just print whatever you wanted to save into the PDF file on one of those printers. Works with any program that can print. It's a program so useful that I wonder why Windows doesn't have one by default.

    In the specific case of the TIFF file, you want a program that can view all the pages of the file. I use XnView but most image viewers should be able to do it. Make sure it's configured to not print any header or footer and change the margins to zero for a better result.

    Just have in mind that TIFF files are images, like JPG photos. There's no editable text. It's mostly used by scanners to quickly shove a paper document in digital format. If you need to edit the damn thing, try grabbing the original text document to save you a LOT of trouble.

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