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10139N/A<refentry id="fax2ps-1">

10139N/A<refmeta><refentrytitle>fax2ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

10139N/A<refmiscinfo class="date">26 Mar 2004</refmiscinfo>

10139N/A<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

10139N/A<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

10139N/A<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

10139N/A<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

10139N/A</refmeta>

10139N/A<indexterm><primary>fax2ps</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>convert

10139N/Aa TIFF facsimile to compressed PostScript</primary></indexterm>

10139N/A<refnamediv id="fax2ps-1-name"><refname>fax2ps</refname><refpurpose>convert

10139N/Aa TIFF facsimile to compressed PostScript</refpurpose></refnamediv>

10139N/A<refsynopsisdiv id="fax2ps-1-synp"><title>&synp-tt;</title>

10139N/A<cmdsynopsis><command>&cmd;</command><arg choice="opt"><option role="nodash"><replaceable>

10139N/Aoptions</replaceable></option></arg><arg choice="opt"><option role="nodash"><replaceable>

10139N/Afile</replaceable></option></arg>

10139N/A</cmdsynopsis></refsynopsisdiv>

10139N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

10139N/A<para><command>&cmd;</command> reads one or more TIFF facsimile image files

10139N/Aand prints a compressed form of PostScript that is suitable for printing on

10139N/Athe standard output.</para>

10139N/A</refsect1>

10139N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-opts"><title>&opts-tt;</title>

10139N/A<para>The following options are supported:</para>

10139N/A<variablelist termlength="narrow">

10139N/A<varlistentry><term><option>H <replaceable>height</replaceable></option></term>

10139N/A<listitem><para>Use height as the height, in inches, of the output page. The

10139N/Adefault page height is 11 inches.</para>

10139N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

10139N/A<varlistentry><term><option>p <replaceable>number</replaceable></option></term>

10139N/A<listitem><para>Print only the indicated page. To print multiple pages, specify

10139N/Athis option as often as required.</para>

10139N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

10139N/A<varlistentry><term><option>S</option></term><listitem><para>Scale each page

10139N/Aof image data to fill the output page dimensions. By default, images are presented

10139N/Aaccording to the dimension information recorded in the TIFF file.</para>

10139N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

10139N/A<varlistentry><term><option>W <replaceable>width</replaceable></option></term>

10139N/A<listitem><para>Use <replaceable>width</replaceable> as the width, in inches,

10139N/Aof the output page. The default page width is 8.5 inches.</para>

10139N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

10139N/A<varlistentry><term><option>x <replaceable>resolution</replaceable></option></term>

10139N/A<listitem><para>Use <replaceable>resolution</replaceable> as the horizontal

10139N/Aresolution, in dots per inch, of the image data. By default, this value is

10139N/Ataken from the file.</para>

10139N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

10139N/A<varlistentry><term><option>y <replaceable>resolution</replaceable></option></term>

10139N/A<listitem><para>Use <replaceable>resolution</replaceable> as the vertical

10139N/Aresolution, in lines per inch, of the image data. By default, this value is

10139N/Ataken from the file.</para>

10139N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

10139N/A</variablelist></refsect1>

10139N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-oper"><title>&oper-tt;</title>

10139N/A<para>The following operands are supported:</para>

10139N/A<variablelist termlength="narrow">

10139N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash"><replaceable>file</replaceable></option></term>

10139N/A<listitem><para>The name of the TIFF facsimile image file to be converted

10139N/Ato compressed PostScript.</para>

10139N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

10139N/A</variablelist></refsect1>

10139N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-exde"><title>&exde-tt;</title>

10139N/A<para>By default, each page is scaled to reflect the image dimensions and

10139N/Aresolutions stored in the file. The <option>x</option> and <option>y</option>

10139N/Aoptions can be used to specify the horizontal and vertical image resolutions,

10139N/Arespectively. If the <option>S</option> option is specified, each page is

10139N/Ascaled to fill an output page. The default output page is 8.5 by 11 inches.

10139N/AAlternate page dimensions can be specified in inches with the <option>W</option>

10139N/Aand <option>H</option> options.</para>

10139N/A<para>By default, <command>&cmd;</command> generates PostScript for all pages

10139N/Ain the file. You can use the <option>p</option> option to select one or more

10139N/Apages from a multipage document.</para>

10139N/A<para><command>&cmd;</command> generates a compressed form of PostScript that

10139N/Ais optimized for sending pages of text to a PostScript printer attached to

10139N/Aa host through a low-speed link such as a serial line. Each output page is

10139N/Afilled with white and then only the black areas are drawn. The PostScript

10139N/Aspecification of the black drawing operations is optimized by using a special

10139N/Afont that encodes the move-draw operations required to fill the black regions

10139N/Aon the page. This compression scheme typically results in a substantially

10139N/Areduced PostScript description, relative to the straightforward imaging of

10139N/Athe page with a PostScript image operator. This algorithm can, however, be

10139N/Aineffective for continuous-tone and white-on-black images. For these images,

10139N/Ait sometimes is more efficient to send the raster bitmap image directly, see <citerefentry>

10139N/A<refentrytitle>tiff2ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

10139N/AIf the destination printer supports PostScript Level II, it is always faster

10139N/Ato just send the encoded bitmap generated by the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>

10139N/Atiff2ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> command.</para>

10139N/A<refsect2 id="fax2ps-1-exde-diags">

10139N/A<title>Diagnostics</title>

10139N/A<para>Some messages about malformed TIFF images come from the TIFF library.

10139N/A</para>

10139N/A<para>Various messages about badly formatted facsimile images may be generated

10139N/Adue to transmission errors in received facsimile. <command>&cmd;</command>

10139N/Aattempts to recover from such data errors by resynchronizing decoding at the

10139N/Aend of the current scanline. This can result in long horizontal black lines

10139N/Ain the resultant PostScript image.</para>

10139N/A</refsect2>

10139N/A</refsect1>

10139N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-exam"><title>&exam-tt;</title>

10139N/A<example role="example">

10139N/A<title>Converting the Tiff File test.tif to Compressed PostScript</title>

10139N/A<para><screen>example% <userinput>&cmd; test.tif</userinput></screen></para>

10139N/A</example>

10139N/A</refsect1>

10139N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

10139N/A<para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry>

10139N/A<refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

10139N/Afor descriptions of the following attributes:</para>

10139N/A<informaltable frame="all">

10139N/A<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

10139N/A<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

10139N/A<thead>

10139N/A<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center"

10139N/Avalign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

10139N/A</thead>

10139N/A<tbody>

18745N/A<row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>image/library/libtiff</para></entry>

10139N/A</row>

10139N/A<row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry

13623N/Acolname="COLSPEC1"><para>Uncommitted</para></entry></row>

10139N/A</tbody>

10139N/A</tgroup>

10139N/A</informaltable>

10139N/A</refsect1>

10139N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

10139N/A<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>tiff2ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

10139N/A</citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>libtiff</refentrytitle><manvolnum>

10139N/A3</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>

10139N/A</refsect1>

11904N/A<refsect1 id="fax2ps-1-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

10139N/A<para>Updated by Breda McColgan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.</para>

10139N/A</refsect1>

10139N/A</refentry>