imagemagick / hylafax question

[mike neuliep]

Jeremy, fax2ps seems to do the trick but the quality is awful.  tiff2ps
only seems to convert the first page of the fax, which is the same problem
I've had with most of these other converters.  Is it me or am I boneheaded
when it comes to using tiff2ps for multi-page faxes.  Any help would be
appreciated!

	Mike

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jeremy Fowler wrote:

> I'm not sure why your using Imagemagick for the conversion. It's better to use
> libtiff which has a tiff2ps (and the older, lesser quality, fax2ps) command line
> program that will convert the tiff image to a Postscript image.
> 
> Then look at the bin/faxrcvd shell script in the Hylafax install directory, it
> converts the fax to Postscript or PDF by setting the FILETYPE=ps or FILETYPE=pdf
> respectively in /var/spool/hylafax/FaxDispatch. It's default behavior is to
> email tiff images. However, you will need to add a line or two to faxrcvd to
> print the fax after it has been converted to PS.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of mike neuliep
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:48 PM
> > To: kclug at kclug.org; nwilug at nwilug.org
> > Subject: imagemagick / hylafax question
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> >      I'm currently using hylafax to receive faxes on a debian 3.0r0 system.
> > This works extremely well and the next thing I'd like to be able to
> > do is to print the faxes from the command line.  Here's the catch:
> > Hylafax stores multi-page faxes as 1728x1025 images.  This is roughly a
> > 1.7 by 1.0 ratio.  The effect is that the fax squished top to bottom greatly.
> > Now, if I use gnu-halifax I can print everything to a postscript printer
> > all peachy-keen.  It prints out the fax the same way a fax machine would
> > do so.  I'm using a2ps with imagemagick as the helper to print faxes (.tif
> > files) from the command line.  Imagemagick no matter how I resize the tif
> > wants to keep the same 1.7 by 1.0 ratio.  This makes for lousy printing of
> > a fax.  Does anyone know of a better way to print faxes?  BTW I'm using
> > CUPS as my spooler, it seems to work really well.  I know someone out here
> > on kclug once mentions that they process about 4000 faxes a month with
> > hylafax so I am hoping that person could help me.
> >
> > 	Mike
> >
> >
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