Re: flexfax: Tiff Viewer

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> 
> tiff2ps -p -a $FILE | ps2pdf - /tmp/pdf.pdf |lpr

This is nonsense.  It will create a PDF file that can be viewed with
Acrobat or ghostscript and will send nothing to the printer.  It
will require reconversion to Postscript or other printer language
before it can actually be printed.

> ps2pdf can be found at gs_lib-4.03

ps2pdf is a small wrapper around ghostscript with -sDEVICE=pdfwrite,
which specifies a pseudo printer driver which creates PDF files.

In fact, as PDF level 1.1 (Acrobat 2) allows the direct inclusion of
Group 3 fax raw data, but gs 5.10- can only output uncompressed images,
if you wanted to create PDF from the TIFF, it would make much more sense
to translate directly - the program would be only a few pages long.