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

Answer 1

tiffg4 is a black&white output device. You should use tiff24nc or tiff12nc as the output device colour PDFs - see ghostscript output devices. These will be uncompressed but you could put the resulting TIFFs through imagemagick or similar to resave as compressed TIFF.