Re: flexfax: fax2ps

[Tony Tang <tyw@atnhk.com>]

try

fax2ps $1 | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=hpljet3 -sOutPutFile=- - | lpr
-Pyourprinter.

I just test/complete this 2 days ago.


David Woolley wrote:
> 
> >
> > I=B4ve successfully installed the hylafax-package on my intel-linux-box
> > (2.0.36).
> > I=B4ve also modified the faxrecv-script to print-out incoming faxes:
>    ??? (not apostrophe)
> >   fax2ps $1 | lpr   { using APSfilter to convert from PS -> HP LaserJet 4=
> > )
> 
> This is a rather contorted route.  Although it might not solve your problem,
> I'd be suprised if you couldn't go from TIFF to HP via PBM.  If PS is
> the only viable intermediate, which is unlikely and it is severe overkill,
> you would almost certainly be better off with the TIFF to PS convertor.
> tiff2ps is intended to work with real, and quite old, Postscript printers
> and does things to minimise printing time, rather than produce the best
> postscript in the world.
> 
> Incidentally, in a linux world, and given that you need it anyway for
> hylafax, why aren't you using ghostscript for the PS to HP step?
> 
> > }
> > All that works, but - pages are rendered beginning on the left bottom of
> 
> Again this doesn't particularly help, but bottom left is the origin of
> the Postscript coordinate system.