At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:32:03 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > Receiving faxes via efax/jfax whatever. All come in as multi-page tif. > Which apparently is a bit of a standard in 'document management > software' circles.
For what its worth, the "best" format for scanned (or faxed) documents sounds like its "DjVu". I've never tried it myself, but there's a bunch of conversion tools/display programs/browser plugins for it packaged for Debian under the names "djview" and "djvulibre". If you can install the appropriate windows software, this sounds like a very nice format speed+size-wise for these types of documents - particularly if you want to archive/serve them through HTTP. Alternatively, you could use the "tiffsplit" tool from libtiff and a bit of shell coding to split the file and attach multiple PNGs or something to the email. This may make archiving harder though. You could also use a similar shell script on the MUA end, by dropping a similar command line into /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap. I can't remember whether evolution honours mailcap or whether its like the rest of those sucky GNOME programs that have forgotten what makes UNIX great in the course of trying to make UNIX greater(*). (*) blatently unnecessary troll. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
