In this article, you will see how to use the command line application VeryDOC Postscript to Image Converter to convert EPS to TIFF format image. When you do this kind of conversion, you can also compress the target TIFF image with different compression methods that supported by the application. This application also supports to create ClassF TIFF image.
Postscript to Image Converter is an application program based on Windows platform, which can directly convert PS and EPS files to dozens of image formats, such as TIFF, JPG, EMF, WMF, PCX, TGA, GIF, PNG, BMP and so on. By using the application, you can realize different kinds of conversions.
The following link is the download link for the free trial version of Postscript to Image Converter: www.verydoc.com/ps2img.zip. From the download link, you can see that this is a ZIP file. If you want to use it, you need to unzip the file to some location of your computer and that is enough. All the components of the application can be seen in the extracted folder and the executable file ps2img.exe which is the called program in the conversion EPS to TIF will be runnable at once.
In addition, at the homepage of the application https://www.verydoc.com/ps-to-image.html there are several kinds of licenses. If you want to run Postscript to Image Converter on a server, you can use the server license. If you are a software developer, you may need the developer license to help you. No matter which kind of license you need, just visit the homepage to purchase.
Then please see the following contents for converting EPS to TIFF.
1. Please open MS-DOS command prompt window. You can click “Start”—“Run” or use the hot key “Window”+ “R” to open “Run” dialog box. Then in “Open” combo box of “Run” dialog box, please input “cmd” and click “OK” button.
2. You need to input the command line into the popup MS-DOS command prompt window. The three necessary parts in the command line are called program, source file and target file. Moreover, you can also add some other commands to realize some functions according to your needs. For your better understanding the command line, please see the following one:
ps2img –c g3 –i C:\input-test.eps –o C:\output-test.tiff
In the command line,
ps2img stands for the called program.
–c g3 is to use g3 compress method to compress the target TIFF image.
–i with C:\input-test.eps stands for the path of source file.
–o with C:\output-test.tiff stands for the path of target file.
There are other commands for compressing TIFF image:
-c none : Create TIFF file without compression
-c lzw : Compress TIFF using LZW arithmetic
-c jpeg : Compress TIFF using JPEG arithmetic
-c packbits : Compress TIFF using packbits arithmetic
-c g3 : Compress TIFF using CCITT G3 arithmetic
-c g4 : Compress TIFF using CCITT G4 arithmetic
-c ClassF : Compress TIFF into Fax compatible ClassF 204x98 format
-c ClassF196: Compress TIFF into Fax compatible ClassF 204x196 format
3. Please hit “Enter” button on your keyboard to run the conversion from EPS to TIFF at last.
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