This is posted mainly for my future reference, but it probably is helpful to others.
What I am doing is taking single page TIF Files of various sizes and DPI and creating a multi page PDF with proper formatting and aspect ratios. Below is the settings and code to do this using IrfranView. What I'm actually doing is much more complex than this, but this is enough of the code to figure it out without trial and error like I did. Ifranview has a lot more power than is documented.
The source files are single page TIF files of varying sizes at 200DPI. The destination is a PDF of same sized images which view and print nicely.
The INI file i_view32.ini has the following added to it to make these transitions;
[Batch]
AdvCrop=0
AdvCropX=0
AdvCropY=0
AdvCropW=0
AdvCropH=0
AdvCropC=0
AdvResize=0
AdvResizeOpt=0
AdvResizeW=966.00
AdvResizeH=1020.00
AdvResizeL=0.00
AdvResizeS=0.00
AdvResample=1
AdvResizePerc=0
AdvResizePercW=0
AdvResizePercH=0
AdvDPI=120
AdvResizeUnit=0
AdvResizeRatio=0
AdvNoEnlarge=0
AdvCanvas=1
AdvAddText=1
AdvUseBPP=0
AdvBPP=0
AdvUseFSDither=1
AdvAutoRGB=0
AdvHFlip=0
AdvVFlip=0
AdvRLeft=0
AdvRRight=0
AdvGray=0
AdvInvert=0
AdvSharpen=0
AdvGamma=0
AdvContrast=0
AdvBrightness=0
AdvSaturation=0
AdvColR=0
AdvColG=0
AdvColB=0
AdvSharpenVal=1
AdvGammaVal=0.00
AdvContrastVal=0
AdvBrightnessVal=0
AdvSaturationVal=0
AdvColRVal=0
AdvColGVal=0
AdvColBVal=0
AdvDelOrg=0
AdvOverwrite=1
AdvSubdirs=0
AdvSaveOldDate=0
AdvAllPages=1
AdvFineR=0
AdvFineRVal=0.00
AdvBlur=0
AdvBlurVal=1
AdvMedian=0
AdvMedianVal=3
AdvRbg=0
AdvBgr=0
AdvBrg=0
AdvGrb=0
AdvGbr=0
AdvAutoCrop=0
SaveExtension=tif
Work=0
RenamePattern=image###
UseAdvanced=1
OpenIndex=1
UseAdvanced=1
OpenIndex=1
[Effects]
UseResample=0
CanvB=1110
CanvW=1110
CanvColor=16777215
OilPaint=0
RotateDegrees=0
CanvL=0
CanvR=966
CanvT=0
[BatchText]
AddText=www.YourWebsite.com
TextCoord=830;1050;960;1100;
Corner=0
Orientation=2
TranspText=0
FontColor=0
TxtBgkr=16777215
FontParam=-13|0|0|0|400|0|0|0|0|3|2|1|34|
Font=Arial
The code below is VBScript for applications which makes this change.
This is a subsection of code.
for looper = 1 to cnt2
WriteInfo "mailfile:" & PDFFileName, TIFFilename
'Convert all the TIFs in the owerns folder to 120 DPI for printing to look right;
Shellto = "C:\Progra~1\IrfanView\i_view32.exe " + chr(34) + "c:\temp\stm\" & OWNERCLEAN & "\" & Cstr(looper) & ".tif" + chr(34) + " /advancedbatch /silent /dpi=(120,120) /crop=(0,0,966,1110) /append=" + chr(34) + "c:\temp\stm\" & OWNERCLEAN & "aaaa.tif" + chr(34) & " /convert"
WriteInfo "Shellto:" & Shellto
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
rc = oShell.Run(ShellTo,4,false)
'need to add code to wait until shell is complete
set svc=getobject("winmgmts:root\cimv2")
sQuery="select * from win32_process where name='i_view32.exe'"
set cproc=svc.execquery(sQuery)
iniproc=cproc.count 'it can be more than 1
Do While iniproc <> 0
set svc=getobject("winmgmts:root\cimv2")
sQuery="select * from win32_process where name='i_view32.exe'"
set cproc=svc.execquery(sQuery)
iniproc=cproc.count
Loop
set cproc=nothing
set svc=nothing
next
'Take the TIF
'Shellto = "C:\Progra~1\IrfanView\i_view32.exe " + chr(34) + TIFFileName + chr(34) + " /silent /dpi=(120,120) /convert=" + chr(34) + PDFFileName + chr(34)
Shellto = "C:\Progra~1\IrfanView\i_view32.exe " + chr(34) + "c:\temp\stm\" & OWNERCLEAN & "aaaa.tif" + chr(34) + " /silent /dpi=(120,120) /convert=" + chr(34) + PDFFileName + chr(34) & " /convert"
WriteInfo "Shellto:" & Shellto
'Dim oShell
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
rc = oShell.Run(ShellTo,4,false)
'need to add code to wait until shell is complete
set svc=getobject("winmgmts:root\cimv2")
sQuery="select * from win32_process where name='i_view32.exe'"
set cproc=svc.execquery(sQuery)
iniproc=cproc.count 'it can be more than 1
Do While iniproc <> 0
set svc=getobject("winmgmts:root\cimv2")
sQuery="select * from win32_process where name='i_view32.exe'"
set cproc=svc.execquery(sQuery)
iniproc=cproc.count
Loop
set cproc=nothing
set svc=nothing
Understanding it. The INI addes a white border to the right at bottom of the image. It is X and Y are the page width and lenght of the largest page. Think of it this way. If you get a TIF image which is 1x1 then this will add a border to make it a full page. If it's already a full page, you have a huge image. But that is ok at this point. I specify white for this border as this is a text image. This is the settings CanvR CanvW CanvH.
The INI also puts a watermark in an X Y position which in this case will be the lower right corner of the page. www.Yourwebsite.com.
i_view32.exe " + chr(34) + "c:\temp\stm\" & OWNERCLEAN & "\" & Cstr(looper) & ".tif" + chr(34) + " /advancedbatch /silent /dpi=(120,120) /crop=(0,0,966,1110) /append=" + chr(34) + "c:\temp\stm\" & OWNERCLEAN & "aaaa.tif" + chr(34) & " /convert"
So this says take a source TIF, run it through the advanced batch conversion settings explained above, do this silently if there is an error (don't stop), modify the print DPI to 120x120, then crop that result down to 966x1110 and append that to a multipage TIF. /convert at the end tells Irfanview to close after all of this is done.
C:\Progra~1\IrfanView\i_view32.exe " + chr(34) + TIFFileName + chr(34) + " /silent /dpi=(120,120) /convert=" + chr(34) + PDFFileName + chr(34)
Shellto = "C:\Progra~1\IrfanView\i_view32.exe " + chr(34) + "c:\temp\stm\" & OWNERCLEAN & "aaaa.tif" + chr(34) + " /silent /dpi=(120,120) /convert=" + chr(34) + PDFFileName + chr(34) & " /convert"
This takes the resulting multipage TIF file and converts it to a multipage PDF using the Alternatif PDF Pluging (You have to have the addon plugins.)
This is the result of several weeks of discovery. Many of these features of Irfanview seem poorly documented. Once you discover the true power of the program, it is an amazing piece of software.
