Ghostscript PDF -> TIFF conversion is awful for me, people rave about it, I alone look sullen.

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Published on 2008-10-21T10:56:14Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 18:32 UTC
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My stomach churns when I see this kind of output.

and this was my command as suggested by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75500/best-way-to-convert-pdf-files-to-tiff-files#221341

gswin32c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=a.tif a.pdf -c quit

What am I doing wrong?

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