[ILL-L] Re: Converting pdf to tif for Odyssey or Ariel delivery

[Doyle, John (NIH/NLM) [E]]

Another solution for converting a PDF to multi-page TIFF is NLM's free
DocMorph utility, which is available at
http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/ .
This is a web-based tool which converts an uploaded file in one of 50
supported formats into either a PDF or TIFF (single page or multi-page).
DocMorph is usually successful at converting PDFs to TIFF, but some PDFs
with restricted security options will not allow it.

There is also a "MyMorph"client available for batch migration of files.

Regards,
John

John P. Doyle
Head, Systems Unit
Collection Access Section
National Library of Medicine
doylejo at mail.nlm.nih.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Britt [mailto:kbritt at emory.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:20 AM
To: West, Mary Ellen; ILLiad-l Discussion List; Interlibrary Loan
Listserv
Subject: [ILL-L] Converting pdf to tif for Odyssey or Ariel delivery

I've had several questions about this, so I thought I'd share it with 
everyone.  Thanks to Brian Miller at OSU for helping me figure this out 
at the last ILLiad conference!

It's easy...first, make sure that your ejournal license allows ILL 
sharing. 

    * When you have the .pdf open, just click on the printer icon within
      the .pdf (not the browser printer). 
    * You should have an option of printing to the "Microsoft Office
      Document Image Writer."  Choose that printer, and then click OK. 
    * You will then get a save screen, where you can select where you
      want to save the file.  I have created 2 files, one for Odyssey on
      my desktop ("Odyssey tif") and one for Ariel on a shared drive
      ("Ariel tif").  I put the Ariel one on a shared drive because
      Ariel is not on my computer since it has it's own workstation. 
      Saving to a shared drive allows us to access the saved file from
      the Ariel computer. 
    * Save the file using whatever name you want to use.  We have chosen
      to save the file using our ILLiad TN.  We have found that with
      Ariel if we use the ILL number Ariel doesn't like it for some
      reason and will reject the import.
    * Once you have created the .tif file, you can import the file into
      either Odyssey or Ariel


We do a similar thing with microform scans, but instead of saving the 
file to our desktop or shared file, we save the file to a portable flash

drive.  When we return to the ILL office, we import the .tif file from 
the flash drive into either Odyssey or Ariel.

For emails, we just send the .pdf directly without doing the .tif 
conversion first.

Important last step:  once the article is sent via Ariel, Odyssey or 
Email, it is VERY IMPORTANT to delete the file from your computer.  
Maintaining multiple copies of an ejournal article is a copyright
violation.

Hope this helps,
Kathy
PS  We tried doing the conversion within Acrobat, but the .tif file it 
created was not a multi-page .tif.  Acrobat wanted to save each page as 
a separate file, which didn't work for our purposes.

West, Mary Ellen wrote:
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> Good Morning and Happy 4^th of July (almost)
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> I have a question. 
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> What is your process for converting e-journals for import into Ariel 
> or Odyssey?
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> We are experimenting with converting and importing here and are 
> looking into various ways of making this process as
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> Easy as possible.
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> Thank you for taking the time to share