In the Gist below we assume that the images have square pixels so we just use the “HorizontalPixelSize” for my calculation. To calculate the pixel density, you need to look at the metadata associated with that image. The image portion of an image file really only knows about it’s width and height. The fun part is figuring out what size page to put it on.

The developer simply needs to convert a standard Java BufferedImage to a PDFXObjectImage before placement on a PDF page this also works for any kind of image, not just TIFF. This article is going to be far shorter than my usual Sample of the Week articles because converting these TIFF files to PDF using the Datalogics PDF Java Toolkit is incredibly simple. Often times, the first stop on the way to becoming useful again, these documents are scanned to TIFF and stored on massive hard drives. Despite the near ubiquitous use of PDF to exchange documents, there are still rooms… and rooms… and rooms of paper documents in cold storage in offices all over the world.

Converting pdf to tiff adobe