G3 to Tiff

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hi,

On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 09:22:12PM +0100, Mirko Zeibig wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I know this to be a common issue, but even in dejanews I did not find a
> satisfying answer. When receiving a fax via mgetty I first tried to convert
> it by the help of fax2tif (I am using SuSE 5.3), but got a lot of decoding
> errors.

I think there was something like "-R" or so (reverse bit order) that has
to be specifified as option to fax2tif.

> Now I use g32pbm | pbm2lps | gs -sDEVICE=tiff which seems to be a little bit
> braindead for me, an attribute I wanted to reserve exclusively for
> M$-solutions ;-).

Urgh.  It definitely is.  A better approach would be "g32pbm |pnmtotiff",
but fax2tif is definitely more elegant.

gert
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