FAX2PS
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 2, 2005
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NAME
fax2ps - convert a
TIFF
facsimile to compressed PostScripttm
SYNOPSIS
fax2ps
[
options
] [
file ...
]
DESCRIPTION
fax2ps
reads one or more
TIFF
facsimile image files and prints a compressed form of
PostScript on the standard output that is suitable for printing.
By default, each page is scaled to reflect the
image dimensions and resolutions stored in the file.
The
-x
and
-y
options can be used to specify the horizontal and vertical
image resolutions (lines/inch), respectively.
If the
-S
option is specified, each page is scaled to fill an output page.
The default output page is 8.5 by 11 inches.
Alternate page dimensions can be specified in inches with the
-W
and
-H
options.
By default
fax2ps
generates PostScript for all pages in the file.
The
-p
option can be used to select one or more pages from
a multi-page document.
fax2ps
generates a compressed form of PostScript that is
optimized for sending pages of text to a PostScript
printer attached to a host through a low-speed link (such
as a serial line).
Each output page is filled with white and then only
the black areas are drawn.
The PostScript specification of the black drawing operations
is optimized by using a special font that encodes the
move-draw operations required to fill
the black regions on the page.
This compression scheme typically results in a substantially
reduced PostScript description, relative to the straightforward
imaging of the page with a PostScript
image
operator.
This algorithm can, however, be ineffective
for continuous-tone and white-on-black images.
For these images, it sometimes is more efficient to send
the raster bitmap image directly; see
tiff2ps(1).
OPTIONS
- -p number
-
Print only the indicated page.
Multiple pages may be printed by specifying
this option more than once.
- -x resolution
-
Use
resolution
as the horizontal resolution, in dots/inch, of the image data.
By default this value is taken from the file.
- -y resolution
-
Use
resolution
as the vertical resolution, in lines/inch, of the image data.
By default this value is taken from the file.
- -S
-
Scale each page of image data to fill the output page dimensions.
By default images are presented according to the dimension
information recorded in the
TIFF
file.
- -W width
-
Use
width
as the width, in inches, of the output page.
- -H height
-
Use
height
as the height, in inches, of the output page.
DIAGNOSTICS
Some messages about malformed
TIFF
images come from the
TIFF
library.
Various messages about badly formatted facsimile images
may be generated due to transmission errors in received
facsimile.
fax2ps
attempts to recover from such data errors by resynchronizing
decoding at the end of the current scanline.
This can result in long horizontal black lines in the resultant
PostScript image.
NOTES
If the destination printer supports PostScript Level II then
it is always faster to just send the encoded bitmap generated
by the
tiff2ps(1)
program.
BUGS
fax2ps
should probably figure out when it is doing a poor
job of compressing the output and just generate
PostScript to image the bitmap raster instead.
SEE ALSO
tiff2ps(1),
libtiff(3)
Libtiff library home page:
http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
Index
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- OPTIONS
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- DIAGNOSTICS
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- BUGS
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