sendfax and postscript

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i am not terribly farmiliar with sendfax, but it appears it _only_ sends
g3 fax files. (check the man page)

so, it seems you will have to convert your postscript to g3 before feeding
it to sendfax.

my redhat linux 6.1 system does not provide a tool to do so directly,
however you might try some series of conversions (ps2pdf pdftopbm pbm2g3) 
or look for some other direct conversion utility.

-cc

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Wolfgang Adrion wrote:

> hello!
> 
> I am trying to send faxes with xsane (scan program) and sendfax.
> Assuming (because of ignorance) I left the field for the "postscript
> switch" blank.
> 
> That's probably the reason for the following error message:
> Trying fax device '/dev/ttyS1'... OK.
> Dialing 010050069791255586... OK.
> sending 'faxproject/page-001.ps'...
> WARNING: are you sure that this is a G3 fax file? Doesn't seem to be... 
> 
> Can anybody tell how I can tell to sendfax that there is a postscript
> file for transmission?
> 
> Thanx in advance
> Wolfgang
> 
> -- 
> mailto:wolfgang.adrion@fen.baynet.de
> 
>