Re: flexfax: postscript attachments show up at 5% size

[Super-User <root@peach.asiainter.net>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Ben Parker wrote:
> This a familiar problem. I have battled with faxmail for some time so that
> my e-mail-> fax gateway can handle attachments and I can tell you:
> 
> It's possible to send attachments through faxmail but you have to put in a
> couple of scripts for each mime type (ie image/gif). One to convert (ie
> GIF to PS), and one to massage the resulting output to compensate for
> faxmail trying to squash the image in 1/20 th original size in the bottom
> left corner.  Sending PS files is ironically the hardest battle. I have
tell me about it.. i've given up with this.

> discovered a silly workaroud. If you attach the PS file twice you get a
> thumbnail on Page 1 and a full size version on Page 2. Pretty punishing on
> transmit time, though.
well what i've been trying to do is send out email to fax in chinese
characters.  what i finally had to do is hack the hell out of faxmail so
it outputs PURE TEXT (get this), this is needed to properly decode
quoted-printable or whatever it's called, and decode the body if it's some
other encoding.  then run it through a program designed to convert chinese
text into bitmapped postscript.  then the result of that is fed into
sendfax.

your workaround doesn't work for me, coz the text/plain of every message
will be converted to ps.

...still looking for a prettier way...