Re: flexfax: TIFF to JPEG

[Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@coresinc.com>]

On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, you wrote:
>
>I assume we are talking about fax images, in which case JPEG is a not a 
>sensible format++.  GIF is better but not as compact as fax.
>
I need GIF in order to present a fax in Netscape / IE (hope not).
>This question was covered about a month ago on the list.  I don't have
>the TIFF tools on my home machine, but something like tifftopnm ought
>to exist, in which case the next step is easy.

I have tofftopnm.  How can I make GIF thereafter ???

>
>I also suspect that this question is really "how can I produce a web gateway
>for viewing received faxes which doesn't require any helper applications
>on the client side?"  If helper applications are allowed, see the recent
>discussions about TIFF G3 viewers for NT and '95.
>
I know that. However my users  (managers) would like everything to stay within
netscape !!!  Therefore GIF !!!
 >> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:33:53 -0100
>                                  ^^^^^
>I don't think that Serbia is really in the eastern Atlantic!
>

Of course, you are right. I made a mistake. However I am not using NTP.
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Sinisa

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