At 11:02 PM 05/26/1998 -0700, you wrote:

I don't know if this helps but here ya go...
We use currently Capture but prior to that I did investigate other avenues.
I am unclear in your description of a tool you have that reads tiff/group
4 files but does not convert to Postscript. Postscript is not necessarily
a "conversion" as in a "save as". If you can read a tiff/group 4 file
simply print it to a Postscript file and hand it to distiller. Any
computer can print to a PS file if you are unclear on how to do this let me
know it is simple.
Keep in mind the big thing you are loosing by not using Capture is full
text searching if that is an issue it was for us.
As for automating the process if you know VB or VC and have access the
API's for your viewing software you could write an OLE app that prints to a
PS file then moves it to a watched dir for Distiller for processing.

good luck,
curt

>Date: 26 May 1998 13:37:47 -0700
>From: mike furlough <mjf9s@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
>Subject: multiple tiff to PDF
>
>Greetings,
>
>Does anyone have experience producing PDFs from multiple tiff
>(group 4 compression) files? We recieve documents in this format, and
>would like to convert them to PDF for electronic delivery to our end
>users. This is an ongoing interlibrary loan project and we cannot
>afford Capture, so we are looking for the poor man's batch process.
>
>Ideally, we would like to be able to either 1) automate conversion of
>the source files to postscript that Distiller could then batch convert
>to PDF, or 2) automate "printing" of the source file to Acrobat PDF
>Writer. So far the only conversion utilities and image readers I've
>located can't handle both tiff/group 4 and postscript conversion. As
>a workaround, we're looking at trying to write a batch script on Win95
>that would automate "printing" to the PDF writer.
>
>Has anyone else tried to do something similar, and would you be willing
>to share your experience?
>
>Mike Furlough
>Publications Office
>University of Virginia Library
>furlough@virginia.edu
>(804)924-3169
>