[Image-SIG] IOError: decoder group3 not available

[D. Alan Stewart]

 From what you've said it sounds like your TIFF has 1-bit per pixel 
images compressed, Group 3/4 compressed. You would need to  decompress 
 eash image, convert it to  8-bit per pixel grayscale (which will be 8 
times the size of the original uncompressed image; RGB would be 24 times 
the original size), and then JPG compress it. I doubt this will produce 
a  compressed  image smaller than the Group 3 image you have now. The 
PDF specification supports Group 3 image compression, why not just 
transfer the compressed image as is to the PDF and not hassle with all 
this? See section 3.3.5 of the 1.4 PDF Specification for a description 
of the CCITTFaxDecode filter....

David Thibault wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I've got multipage TIFF files that I need to convert to PDF using PIL and
>reportlab.  I think I'd be all set except I seem to be hitting an old bug.
>I saw this:
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2002-February/001736.html and it
>seems to be the exact problem I'm running into.  Has anyone ever figured
>this out?  These tiff's are mode 1 and I get the exact error in the subject
>line if I try to convert them to RGB or if I try to convert them to JPG.  I
>was hoping to take each tiff, pull out each page, convert it to jpg, then
>add it to the PDF file so that it would minimize the size of the files.
>However, anything that will work programmatically will make me happy...
>
>Regards,
>Dave
>
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D. Alan Stewart
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