sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion

[Levi Waldron <levi.waldron@utoronto.ca>]

I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by 
web browsers, ie png or jpg.  

Using xv there is a bad loss in image quality, so that the text becomes 
unreadable.  I tried adjusting all the xv dials, but couldn't achieve 
acceptable quality.  

tifftopnm from the netpbm library gives the following error which is a 
documented bug which has been fixed in an upstream version, but I'd rather 
not backport it to woody unless I have to.

Any other suggestions for doing this image conversion with minimal loss of 
image quality?


bash-2.05b$ tifftopnm Culture2.tif
tifftopnm: writing PBM file
P4
1480 2001
tifftopnm: invalid value for fillorder: 0