Packages:
netpbm - Graphics conversion tools
libtiff-tools - TIFF manipulation and conversion tools
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and after that....

    tiffcp - combines one or more files created according to the Tag I
+mage File Format, Revision 6.0 into a single TIFF file.  Because the 
+output file may be compressed using a different algorithm than the in
+put files, tiffcp is most often used to convert between different com
+pression schemes.
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and after that...

    tiff2pdf opens a TIFF image and writes a PDF document to standard 
+output.
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Hello dpetrov,

thanks for your hints.
I'm working under Win32 and all the sources I found are for Linux/Unix distributions (except Cygwin).
Is there a way of using them under windows (without Cygwin)? In the "worst"case scenario I will use my Linux PC but since Windows is the main OS at the company, I would prefer Windows.
I'm curious if "your" tools can acomplish what I described in the answer to Martin's post.

Thanks for your help,
Shinama

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"You read too much and understand too little."
Moiraine Damodred (The Wheel of Time)

http://www.randomsequence.com/articles/overlaying-images-with-imagemagick/

If you need to do it with Perl/Image::Magick than I'm sure that this package gives you all the options the command line tool gives you. Just check the manual how to do it exactly.

Best, Martin

Hello Martin,

thanks for the advice. I tried it but the effect is not exactly what I need: The sources are black/white tiffs. Because of the nature of blending one picture into another, both pictures black & white parts look kinda bad :(

Someone told me that with the LeadTools (funny name <_<) it would be possible to do some kind of mathematic: you (apparently) can tell the tools: take both pictures, and if a pixel is black in one of the pictures, make the target pixel in the output file black too. That's similiar to blending but it should save the black/white parts of the tiff.

Is something like that possible with Perl::Magick? I tried the XOR functions, the different combining functions etc but still I'm not able do to that.

Perhaps it's not possible to do what I would need but if there is a chance please tell me. And even if I fail I learned something about manipulating images with perl so it wasn't for nothing :D

Thanks for your help in advance,
Shinama
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"You read too much and understand too little."
Moiraine Damodred (The Wheel of Time)

Hi,

sorry I don't have a in-deep knowledge of image magick. I just use it from time to time and then I just check the online manual. But it should be possible with it.

The XOR function is not what you need, more like an OR function. Just check the manual again and google for it.

Martin

See GhostPCL

# Convert the pcl file mypcl.pcl to PDF
# with output written to mypcl.pdf.

pcl6 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=mypcl.pdf mypcl.pcl
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hth,
PooLpi

Hello PooLpi,

thats something I'm already able to do, the problem is that the PCL-source has two pages that should be one (one page = layout, second = data) :(
I splitted the pcl in two seperate tiff's with Ghostscript in order to combine them later on. But that's way more difficult that I thought.

Greetings,
Shinama

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"You read too much and understand too little."
Moiraine Damodred (The Wheel of Time)

use Prima;
my $a = Prima::Image-> load('a.tif');
my $b = Prima::Image-> load('b.tif');
$a-> put_image(0,0,$b,rop::AndPut);
$a-> save('c.tif');
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