Why not just "pass through" the data from the TIFF into the PDF  
(obviously "unwrapping" the data streams)?

PDFlib and a few other PDF libraries take this approach for some  
image formats...


Leonard

On May 23, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Paulo Soares wrote:

> Tiff images compressed with LZW are first decompressed and then
> recompressed with flate compression. This takes a lot of memory and
> time. Jpeg images are included as-is with any decompression/ 
> compression.
>


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