Re: flexfax: Automatic Processing of Received Facsimile

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, 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

fax2ps is part of the standard TIFF distribution written by Sam Leffler,
the inventor of TIFF and primary author of HylaFAX. tiff2ps is
a much more powerful, flexible, and *LARGER* program. fax2ps is
much smaller and therefore at least somewhat faster.

> 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?

Well, if you Read The Fine Manual page, you will see that fax2ps outputs
the Postscript as stdout. Write your modifications accordingly.

However, this always expands the size of your files by a lot and
wastes a lot of disk space and CPU. Instead, why not improve your
people's TIFF viewers? Try viewfax from the HylaFAX site, or
ftp.sgi.com, or ImageMagick, or something like that?

> We also have a lot of NT users with Acrobat.  Has anyone had success
> with ps2pdf or tiff2pdf?

Win95 includes a decent fax viewer called c:\windows\wangimg.exe
(in its default location). I recommend this one, if it's carried
over to WinNT.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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