A legacy backend requires the email body with a .tif document, no tif and it fails. So i need to generate a blank .tif, is there a fast way to do this with ghostscript?
edit: make once in project installation use when i need it.
A:
Couldn't you make your blank .tif file once and then attach the same file every time it is needed?
fryguybob
2008-10-23 04:48:17
It is better to do this, but I still would like to generate it, as I would prefer not to create it then distribute it in the package.
Setori
2008-10-23 04:53:02
The definition of .tif isn't going to change so the once generated file could be thought of as just a set of bytes that is the magic word for "blank .tif". You don't have to store that in the file system, it could be as a resource or directly in code. Isn't that better than an extra dependency?
fryguybob
2008-10-23 04:57:13
+3
A:
The following line will produce a 1 pixel Tiff file (340 bytes). That's the smallest Tiff file I could get.
gswin32c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffpack -g1x1 -sOutputFile=small.tif -c newpath 0 0 moveto 1 1 lineto closepath stroke showpage quit
Actually, you can even reduce the command to:
gswin32c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffpack -g1x1 -sOutputFile=small.tif -c showpage quit
without size gain, alas.
PhiLho
2008-10-23 09:07:38
Even shorter: `gswin32c -o small.tif -g1x1 -sDEVICE=tiffpack -c showpage quit`. Result is 302 bytes.
pipitas
2010-08-10 15:36:36