and the problem of the jpeg-tiffs was solved with hacking the TIFFCP source to handle the weird jpeg variant it used, so it could convert them to g4 compression and then run through the usual g4-to-pd...
it was supposed to get fixed by doing offline processing of all the files and storing them as native PDFs in the first place, but this is the part in my employment at the government where they forgot I worked for them? and accidentally unhired me
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