Re: flexfax: HELP ! Faxmail and PDF attachment...

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Alexandre Meissonnier wrote:

> Hi, 
> I guess you are talking about incoming faxes. The method is: 
> - Convert the TIFF into Postscript with fax2ps
> - Convert the Postscript into PDF with ghostscript.
> The whole thing goes into the faxrcvd script.
> 
> I tried this some time ago. It works but it produces really huge files (1 MB per page).
> So I switched back to PostScript.

Oh, cheez, yes. Using TIFF, which is a graphical bitmap format, then
turning it into Postscript, which is a language for describing objects
and can be masticated into dealing with bitmaps, then turning *THAT*
into PDF, which is *ANOTHER* language for objects but is always
bulkier than Postscript, is just asking for your life to suck.

Why not just directly use ghostscript to go from TIFF to PDF?  Write a
custom fax2pdf script?

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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