gs-pbmtog3 -- scaling problem

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 2 May 1996 18:29:17 +0200


Hi,

Gerhard Ahuis wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > > > gs -DEVICE=faxhi foo.ps .....
> > > 
> > > Did you try this with gray-scale or color images ??
> > > The resulting g3 faxfile is not properly rasterized.
> > 
> > So? dfaxhigh/dfaxlow/faxg3 work fine with the "tiger.ps".
> > 
> 
> I didn't try tiger.ps, but I generated a postscipt file with the 
> postscript driver of Micrografix in WIN 3.11. When I print this file on 
> my laserjet it looks fine. However when converting it to g3 and faxing it 
> to a fax the gray planes looked like rasterized blocks.

Hmmm, didn't try this. Maybe a bad side effect of some "internal
postscript options" (windows postscript drivers are known to do ugly
things in their output) -- maybe a bug in ghostscript, dunno. Never seen
this myself, though.

gert

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