I have some great experience with iText (now, I'm using 5.0.6 version) and this is the code for tiff convertion into pdf:
private static String convertTiff2Pdf(String tiff) {
// target path PDF
String pdf = null;
try {
pdf = tiff.substring(0, tiff.lastIndexOf('.') + 1) + "pdf";
// New document A4 standard (LETTER)
Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER, 0, 0, 0, 0);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(pdf));
int pages = 0;
document.open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
RandomAccessFileOrArray ra = null;
int comps = 0;
ra = new RandomAccessFileOrArray(tiff);
comps = TiffImage.getNumberOfPages(ra);
// Convertion statement
for (int c = 0; c < comps; ++c) {
Image img = TiffImage.getTiffImage(ra, c + 1);
if (img != null) {
System.out.println("page " + (c + 1));
img.scalePercent(7200f / img.getDpiX(), 7200f / img.getDpiY());
document.setPageSize(new Rectangle(img.getScaledWidth(), img.getScaledHeight()));
img.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
cb.addImage(img);
document.newPage();
++pages;
}
}
ra.close();
document.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error("Convert fail");
logger.debug("", e);
pdf = null;
}
logger.debug("[" + tiff + "] -> [" + pdf + "] OK");
return pdf;
}