On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:32:03AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > User requirement: > > 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. > > Perfect solution: To provide in the combo box on the evolution email, an > option to view all pages (electric eyes only shows the first one! So > does the gimp etc.) and to print them. > > Current solution: Provides a script to convert the MPtiff to pdf and > view it in xpdf. > > > >cat /usr/local/bin/viewtiff > #!/bin/sh > convert $1 $1.ps > ps2pdf $1.ps > rm $1.ps > xpdf $1.pdf > > This will convert a tiff to pdf and view it in xpdf. Interestingly > 'convert' did a really bad job of multi-page tif to pdf direct. ps2pdf > was much better. Also it's fast, less than a second to do 6 pages to pdf > from tif. Probably due to what Gus mentioned about tif just being a wrapper.
fax2pdf does a fabulous job of converting tiff/g3 to PDF, the PDF comes out smaller or about the same size, and the quality is the same, but the PDF viewer anti-aliases etc so it looks better and is more readable. > Using Gnome, I've added it to Nautilus scripts so the user can do it on > the current focused file target. To add to Nautilus' scripts I put it in > /home/user/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/. > > I've tried using gnomes file types to make it available direct in > evolution but it doesn't seem to hang together. > > If I crack that I'll post it. > > HTHSomeone > > Stu > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
