Gian Franco wrote:I was thinking of PDF -> TIFF, we have two systems where the latter
format prevails so we're thinking of adding conversion of the former...
OK, you are referring to conversion in the sense of "rendering".
I saw that Paulo (co-developer of iText) has been adding TIFF creation functionality,
but it's untested and undocumented, and certainly not capable of rendering PDFs to TIFFs yet.
Right now, I would say that PDF-to-TIFF isn't a priority for us, because:
- PDF rendering is not our core business
- there are other tools that do this, and why would we want to compete?
Then again: we've always said the same about parsing PDF, and
the PDF parser is getting better and better with every new release...
And if we can parse a PDF, we could render it, although I don't believe
any third party company can compete with Adobe with respect to viewers:
stuff like transparency is just too difficult. Some people dislike Adobe Reader
in favor of other tools, saying that Adobe Reader is bloated, but as soon as
the PDF has special features, you'll see that third party viewers fail when
compared to Adobe Reader.