In order to convert multipage PDF to multipage TIFF image in your Mac OS X system, you can take the application VeryPDF PDF to Image Converter Command Line as your helper. This application has three versions designed for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows systems respectively for meeting the requirements of different users.
Besides TIFF image, VeryPDF PDF to Image Converter Command Line also supports a variety of image formats like TIF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, TGA, PBM, PGM and PPM. This functional application can also realize other functions besides creating multipage TIFF image.
Download Mac OS X version of VeryPDF PDF to Image Converter Command Line and then and unzip it on your Mac computer. The executable file pdf2img is the called program for the conversion from multipage PDF to multipage TIFF.
At first, you need to open Terminal on your computer and then follow the following template to write your commands:
./pdf2img [options] <PDF-file> <Output-file>
If you want to convert PDF to TIFF or other image formats (BMP, GIF, TGA, PNG, JPG, etc.) only, you can refer to the following commands example:
./pdf2img input.pdf output.tiff
In the commands, the program pdf2img is called to convert input.pdf to output.tiff.
For creating multipage TIFF image, you need to see the following example:
./pdf2img –multipage -compress 88881 –mono input.pdf output.tiff
In the commands, the option –multipage is used to created multipage TIFF image, the option –compress is used to compress TIFF image and the value can be set differently for different compression methods. For more details about this option, please read the readme.txt file in application folder. The option –mono is for creating a monochrome image file.
When you finish in writing the commands, please don't forget to hit Enter button on the keyboard to run the conversion from PDF to multipage TIFF image.
These options are also available in Windows and Linux system. If you have more questions about the application, please visit the homepage of VeryPDF PDF to Image Converter Command Line.