g32pbm -l and pages longer than 11"

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>>>>> "David" == David Tillman <dtillman@cannonexpress.com> writes:

 David>  Hello, everyone. I just subscribed to this list 5
 David> minutes ago and normally I would lurk a while before
 David> posting. As it happens I am having a bit of a crisis here
 David> as I have 3 constantly busy fax lines dumping faxes out to
 David> a HP LaserJet 5si.

 David>  You see, it seems that some people (idiots) insist on
 David> sending us faxes longer than 11 inches.

 David>  What does g32pbm -l do with the extra length? Am I
 David> correct in my understanding from the man pages that it is
 David> just cut off?

 David>  Is there a better LaserJet conversion program?

I used g3topbm to print a fax sent to me by someone who was sending me
a fax they themselves first received. It seems that they have an old
thermal paper fax machine, and did not bother to tear the pages apart,
but just fed it in as one long page. When mgetty received it, it was
received as a single page. The pipeline:

 g3topbm <file> | ppmtops | lpr

Caused the 3 page long original that was faxed as a single very long
page to be autoscaled and printed as a single A-size page in very fine
type. I think the ppmtops filter did the auto-scaling, so if you go
straight to lj, you might not get this behaviour.

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