converting g3/pbm to tiff,gif, etc. ?

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bigbear@teddy.in-berlin.de (Enno Ewers) writes:
>I am currently writing an email2fax / fax2email gateway, which is
>working so far, but I am missing some command line tools to convert
>g3files to other image formats. I would especially like to be able to
>convert to tiff format with compression (CCITT 3/4), or any other
>commonly used formats with good compression ratios.

fax2tiff comes with tifflib (ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff).  It is in the
tools directory.  But where do your g3files come from?  You can go directly
from text/postscript to tiff with ghostscript.

>Btw, what is the right MIME-Type for g3-files ? I currently just use
>"image/g3", but I guess that's not right.

Dunno.  Is there anything in rfc1521?

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