viewfax suggestion

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nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>Yes, yes, I know this isn't the viewfax mailing list, but viewfax is a

Huh?  I have always used it as such without too much of a guilty
conscience. 

>useful program for viewing the output of mgetty.  And it would be even
>more useful if I could use it to *edit* FAXes.  A lot of the FAXes I
>get are forms that I have to fill out and return.  If I could use
>viewfax to type characters onto the FAX, that would be a really,
>really useful feature.  And an extra bonus would be if I could merge
>my scanned signature onto the signature line as well.

Well, I would have to change the damn name again (forgefax?).  The
facility would certainly be useful, but I do not feel it belongs in
viewfax.  I am trying to keep viewfax as unbloated as possible, to
show that there are X-applications without 3-D gouraud-shaded
multi-chromatic bells and whistles.

Converting incoming faxes to tif is easy - use fax2tiff to gather the
pages into one g4-encoded file for archiving.  Then either there is an
editor for bilevel tiff files or you get to write one.  Then we have
to help Gert over his tiff allergy so that mgetty+sendfax will accept
multi-page tiff files as input.

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