Adjusting scale for printing faxes

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Dear people,

I am running a new Debian 2.0 Linux system that has mgetty-fax 1.1.14-2
installed. Receiving faxes works flawlessly, and I am very pleased with
that indeed.
Now I have set up the post process scripts called new-fax by Darko Krizic
which came with my distribution. They provide very nice options for
dealing with faxes. The only thing which I can not seem to solve is that
if a normal resolution fax is printed, it comes out compressed to half
the height of a page. Very difficult indeed. High res. faxes work very
well.
Now I found in the FAQ a section which addresses something like this,
and this gave me hope that someone has tried to resolve it.
I am very ignorant when it comes to shell scripts, but the code is
something like:

> #
> # Written 1996 by Darko Krizic
> #
> print()
> {
>         # optionally take data as new archive directory
>         if [ ! -z "$data" ]
>         then
>                 printer=$data
>         fi
>         for file in $*
>         do
>                 log "print $file to $printer"
>                 g32pbm $file \
>                 | pnmscale -xysize 2479 3508 \
>                 | pgmtopbm -fs \
>                 | pbmtolj -resolution 300 \
>                 | lpr -P $printer
>         done
> 
> }

If there is no know solution, I would be happy with hints that
can help me to work it out by myself.

Thanks up front,

Erik van der Meulen <erik@avondel.xs4all.nl>