Well I found I haven't got pbmtools utilities and have to get it, I found I
could create a PS file but when sendfax sends it.. it appears at the bottom
left corner of the fax (would have been nice to put it at the top left hand
corner... DoH!)
WHat tools are available to add a bitmap on the top left hand corner and
text wrapping around it and down the page..? anything?
thanks,
George Vieira
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Honan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: George Vieira; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] mgetty+sendfax
George asks:
> I guess it'll be non JPG/TIFF format and would need converting and that
> OK how anybody know how it's done?
And Mike gives some good advice.
> I you can generate JPEGs, see the pbmtools for converting to G3.
I'd use png rather than jpeg. Tiff is OK, but you can run into
interopating problems (Tiff can have so many options that not all
progs can read all tiffs). Jpeg is good for pictures, but tends
to not do so well with sharp lines, which is the essence of fax.
For example, here is a line to manipulate a tiff file:
tifftopnm $3 | pnmtopng | /usr/local/bin/headadd $2 | pngtopnm | ppmquant
2 | pnmdepth 1 | pnmtotiff -g3 >$4
If you use libpng and (say) perl you can do a lot of this in
one process, depending on how fancy / how much effort you are
willing to put in.
> George Vieira (not on list but search searching Goodle.com/linux )
What would you find if we all did this?
Jamie
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