Re: flexfax: Automatic Processing of Received Facsimile

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@ottawa.com>]

I don't know about converting them to ps or pdf, but if it's mainly for
NT, Wang Imaging that comes with NT handles the tiffs very well.

I haven't found a good tiff viewer for Unix though.  Anyone know of a
 good one? Or how to get xv to display more than the first page?

a.

On 28 Oct, Philip Juels wrote:
> We sometimes get very large faxes (several pages) and the local tiff
> viewers only show the first page.  I assume I need to convert them to
> postscript?  So,
> I notice that the faxrcvd script has a variable pointing to fax2ps.  Is
> this better than tiff2ps?  Also, where in the script should I put the
> line to execute the conversion from tif to ps.  Will the resulting ps
> file reside in /var/spool/fax/recvd?  What options should I use?
> 
> We also have a lot of NT users with Acrobat.  Has anyone had success
> with ps2pdf or tiff2pdf?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philip Juels
> philip_juels@harvard.edu
> 

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Aidan Van Dyk
aidan@ottawa.com

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