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Converting MAX and TIF into JPEG, JPG and/or PDF

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Martin

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Jul 29, 2005, 3:10:19 PM7/29/05
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Hello,

I have a Brother MFC-6800 multifunction unit that came bundled with
Paperport that creates images in .MAX format. Without Paperport, the unit
scans documents into .TIF format.

I'd like to know if there is freeware that will convert .MAX and/or .TIF
images into JPEG, JPG and/or PDF format.

As always, this NG has been invaluable. Thank you!

Martin


The Seabat

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Jul 29, 2005, 9:17:14 PM7/29/05
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Irfanview will convert your TIF/TIFF files to JPG. Don't know about
MAX, though. Never heard of that format.

www.irfanview.com


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k

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Jul 30, 2005, 11:57:35 AM7/30/05
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"The Seabat" <sea...@boardermail.com> wrote in message
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irfanview won't sadly.. been there.

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=max

suggests paperports viewer
http://www.scansoft.com/paperport/viewers/default.asp

might be worth a look.. downloading it now myself

k

k

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Jul 30, 2005, 11:59:23 AM7/30/05
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"The Seabat" <sea...@boardermail.com> wrote in message
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| On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:10:19 -0400, "Martin"
| <NoSpam...@NoSpam.NoSpam> wrote:
|
| >>Hello,
| >>
| >>I have a Brother MFC-6800 multifunction unit that came bundled with
| >>Paperport that creates images in .MAX format. Without Paperport, the
unit
| >>scans documents into .TIF format.
| >>
| >>I'd like to know if there is freeware that will convert .MAX and/or .TIF
| >>images into JPEG, JPG and/or PDF format.
| >>
| >>As always, this NG has been invaluable. Thank you!


nope - the viewer's no good :-(

k

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k

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Aug 2, 2005, 2:13:17 AM8/2/05
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"Duddits" <Dud...@Dreamcatcher.com> wrote in message
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| On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:57:35 +0800, "k" <fell...@PING.com> wrote:
|
| >| >>scans documents into .TIF format.
| >| >>
| >| >>I'd like to know if there is freeware that will convert .MAX and/or
.TIF
| >| >>images into JPEG, JPG and/or PDF format.
| >| >>
| >| >>As always, this NG has been invaluable. Thank you!
| >| >>
| >| >>Martin
|
| This may/may not help
| As a current PaperPort user, you probably know that, with previous
releases
| of the product, your scanned documents were saved in the proprietary MAX
| file format. This worked well, but thousands of PaperPort users have been
| asking for the ability to save documents in a format that could be more
| easily shared with others who may not own a copy of PaperPort. Responding
| to this request, PaperPort Deluxe 9 now treats PDF as a native file
format.
| All scanned documents can come into PaperPort as PDF (or MAX) without
| having to convert them, and all of PaperPort's editing, annotating and
| desktop operations work on PDF just like they do now for MAX files.
| http://www.ngtvoice.com/products/software/ocr/paperport.htm


which just gave me an idea :-)

Maybe the original poster can download cutepdf and from paperport, print the
file to cutepdf - just did it and it works a treat. :-) then all's needed
is an ap to convert the pdf to a bmp or tif

k

Ian Jackson

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Aug 5, 2005, 4:13:40 PM8/5/05
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<42ef0f42$0$11929$5a62...@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>, k
<fell...@PING.com> writes
This seems to work....
To convert PDF to bmp or TIF, use Paperless Printer to print the PDF
document, but select BMP or JPG as the output file, instead of the
default PDF. Once you have the BMP or PDF, use almost any imaging
program to convert to TIF (although why you would want to, I don't
know).
Ian.
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