Converts PDF figures to tiff files for publication

pdf2tiff.sh

#!/bin/bash
# batch convert pdf to tiff files
# takes one argument, resolution in dpi
# use: pdf2tiff.sh 150
# will convert all pdfs in the current
# directory to tiff files at 150dpi

files=`ls *.pdf`

for i in $files;do
	# get the filename without the extension
	noextension=`echo $i | sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'`
	filename=`echo $noextension.tif`
	echo $filename
	gs -q -dNOPAUSE -r$1 -sDEVICE=tiff24nc -sCompression=lzw -sOutputFile=$filename $i -c quit
done

exit 1