fax and printe output

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Hi,

Michael L. Stokes wrote:
> This is not strictly an mgetty issue, but I should have the right
> audience.  When I print my fax file to a postscript printer and the page
> is not full, the output is centered vertically on the page. I am using
> the following command string
> 
> g32pbm $page | pnmtops -noturn | lpr
> 
> If I use the -nocenter option with pnmtops, then the output is printed at
> the bottom of the page. What I would like is to have the output printed at
> the top of the page like a fax would do.  Any recommendations?

An ad-hoc solution would be to use "pnmturn" to turn the pbm image
upside-down before printing it with "-nocenter".  But that would be slow
and wastefully inefficient.

Besides this, I think you'll have to hack pnmtops...

gert

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