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Some journals require a table of contents or highlights graphic in TIFF format. If you use Inkscape to generate such images on a Linux box like I do, then the following script (thanks to Matsen https://gist.github.com/matsen/4263955) is quite helpful in generating unbloated TIFF files with 300dpi.
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| # Convert all arguments (assumed SVG) to a TIFF acceptable to PLOS | |
| # Requires Inkscape and ImageMagick 6.8 (doesn't work with 6.6.9) | |
| for i in $(ls *.svg | cut -d. -f1); do | |
| inkscape --without-gui --export-png="${i}.png" --export-dpi 300 --export-area-drawing ${i}.svg | |
| convert -compress LZW -alpha remove -trim ${i}.png ${i}.tiff | |
| mogrify -alpha off -geometry 1000x ${i}.tiff | |
| rm ${i}.png | |
| done |
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