TIFFRepresentation slowness

[peavine]

I wrote a script that crops PDFs that contain images, and it can be found in post 3 of:

https://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=211623#p211623

The script generally works as I want, but it is very slow, and one line that appears problematic is in the cropImage handler:

set theData to theImage's TIFFRepresentation()

I looked at the TIFFRepresentation documentation and it contains the following:

If one of the receiver’s image representations does not support the creation of TIFF data natively (PDF and EPS images, for example), this property creates the TIFF data from that representation’s cached content.

So, the thought occurred to me that converting a PDF to a TIFF may simply take some time. However, I wondered if a forum member might look at that handler to see if anything is amiss. Thanks for the help.

[Shane_Stanley]

Depending on the PDF, and the resolution, creating a TIFF bitmaap can take some time.

[peavine]

Thanks Shane and Fredrik71 for looking at my script. I appreciate it.

Edit: October 30, 2022. I was unable to get the script to work well and deleted it.