Mass-convert TIFFs to PDF

I work for a water utility company and we have 1000's of plans scanned to TIFF, some very long (up to 15m) In order to reduce printing costs, these have to beconverted to PDF for easier viewing.

I have found that Bentley Viewer and Microstation v8i are very efficient PDF creators. With the right pltcfg, they produce compact and efficient PDFs from TIFFs, longer than 5m.

After opening the TIFF in either of the above programs, I proceed as follows:

- select the TIFF
- place a fence around the border
- print the fence towards a certain .pltcfg-file
 
I would like to be able to do that with the complete database of all my plans. I need a script to execute and drive MS, because viewer has no scrpting ability.
 
Anybody?
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  • IrFanView did the trick. It allows batch-procesing and conversion of files.

    +/-25800 TIFF-files were converted to PDF, with only +/-70 errors. (it took 2 days...)

    Sadly, the PDF-version IrFanView uses (1.3) also has a limit of a maximum page-size of 200 inch (5,080m) wich for some plans results in non-readable PDFs (by Acrobat Reader)

    Luckily, that applies to about a 100 files or so, so I can do the conversion to PDF manually, using Bentley View and a good .pltcfg-file. The PDF-version MS or View uses is 1.7.

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