Re: flexfax: textfmt

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 02:30:08PM -0400, Yannick Cote wrote:
> Im now *** TIRED ***  of not finding a way to setup textfmt or whatever else to make what i want.
> 
> PLEASE HELP ME !
> 
> We are sending fax from text files that we print in compressed mode, i.e 132 colomns. Is there a $^%&%^ way to do it simply ? I tried to use smaller fonts etc..but it does not do what i want. This is too small. In fact, i try to find a way to reproduce dot matrix behavior when it compress the text. The font stays at the same height but is compress to fit in 132 colomns.
> 
> I need that because we are files that have more than 80 characters in a line.

Sure, we can help you.

First, please find a way to convince your mail program to wrap lines at
72 columns.  :-)

Second, you need to find a postscript font that is condensed -- that
is, one that is considerably narrower than usual.  When you find one
that will fit 132 characters across an 8.5" page, without making the
text too short to read comfortably, install it to GhostScript's
standards, and then wire its name into the (I think) textrules file.

Alternativey, you may be able to write a preamble that will condense
the horizontal aspect ratio of your page, but textfmt may get confused
by the font metrics...

If this isn't enough help, let me know.

Cheers,
-- jra
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