tried them all, and the last one works...

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:18, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:32, Martin Fahrendorf wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 03:19 schrieb Jack Coates:
> > > any one have a way to print a multiple-page fax sent as a TIFF? I hate
> > > to boot VMware just to print it, but it looks like that's the only
> > > option -- everything in Linux only shows page 1.
> >
> > ah, you can do it with efix (part of the efax package) simply run
> > 'efix tifffile.tiff > psfile.ps'. But afaik kfax can do it too.
> >

efix can't do it:
efix: Tue 01 Apr 2003 07:55:08 AM PST efix v 0.3 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
efix: 55:08 Error: can only read TIFF/G3 or TIFF/uncompressed
efix: 55:08 Error: missing offset to TIFF data


kfax fails with "Sorry, this version can only handle Fax files."
> > Martin
> 
> gs should be able to do this too (or was it a tool from libtiff ?). It is 
> definitly possible as I had a faxserver running here to receive faxes and got 
> the faxes in pdf-attached emails. 

gs can't:
Error: /undefined in II*
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3  
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2  
%stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1046/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:68/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 4
ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

> 
> >From man tiff2ps:
> 
> The  following generates POSTSCRIPT Level II for all pages of a facsim-
> ile:
>               tiff2ps -a2 fax.tif | lpr
> 
> So multipage TIFF => PS should work. 

this works great -- program is in the libtiff3-progs RPM.

-- 
Jack Coates
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