Re: [hylafax-users] faxrcvd script to convert incoming faxes to jpg

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

On Monday, August 14, 2000, at 7:45:08 PM, Greg Herlein wrote:
>> Well. JPEG is certainly not the format of choice for black-and-white
>> graphics. Depending on your compression factor you will observe lots
[ ... ]
>> package not lose your modifications. The trick is to redefine the
>> FAX2PS environment which is being used by $SPOOL/etc/faxrcvd. Look at
>> this similar thing, converting received faxes to PostScript (requires
>> ghostscript and metamail) in addition to TIFF:

> Yes, but I had a contract requirement to convert incoming faxes
> into a file format that a Win32 client could easily see.  The
> default faxrcvd script already does the conversion to postscript.
> GIF would probably have looked better, but there are patent
> "issues" there.

A *specific* Win32 client, Greg?  Because IrfanView will read the raw
G3 tiffs, and most new browsers will read PNG, too.

Cheers,
-- jra
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