g3togif (was: web fax viewer...)

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Hi,

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> All in all the experiment was quite satisfactory -- the script handling
> incoming faxes could easily produce the gif files and an HTML page with
> pointers to all received pages, possibly in both resolutions, etc. etc.

Actually, I don't like this. Why? It will take up twice the disk space, a
"delete this fax" operation will have to operate on G3 and GIF data files,
etc. -- hold data only once, and keep it in G3 format (so that other
viewing/manipulation tools can still work).

> Does anyone know if modern browsers are able to parse png files, and
> how good is conversion to png ?

AFAIK, Netscape 3.x and 4.x can *not* do PNG. Dunno about MS Internet 
Exploder.

gert

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