[H-GEN] Of faxes and pbm files
Christopher Biggs
chris at stallion.oz.au
Tue Oct 5 00:19:32 EDT 1999
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Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> Hi all. I need to send a fax to Melbourne and the easiest (hahaha :) way
> to do this for me is to do it using one of my fax-modems. Anyway, sendfax
> talks about pbm (portable bitmap) files, which i can't recall having run
> across before. The fax will most likely be output from netscape, so a .ps
> to pbm converter would be perfect.
Ghostscript can output to ppm/pbm (portable pixmap is the colour
equivalent).
These are the intermediate formats used by the PBMplus/NETPBM toolkit.
They're a simple uncompressed raster image. The idea is that instead
of needing N-squared converter programs to interchange, you use
PBM/PPM as the "standard intermediate" and only need 2n converters.
So "pstoppm <foo.ps | ppmtog3 >foo.g3" would be the canonical
toolchain for teh conversion using the NETPBM toolkit.
"apt-get install netpbm".
cjb.
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Impossible Software Engineering, Stallion Technologies, Brisbane Australia.
I dig PGP, MIME and Rush. Send mail with "Subject: sendpgpkey" for my pubkey
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