Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax Subject: Re: Postscript <-> Fax wanted Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 91 21:13:23 GMT References: <814@marvin.jpl.oz> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 28 postscript to fax: The only thing I really know about is a product from Gammalink called Gammascript which converts PS and HPGL files to group 3 fax format for transmission (used with their fax products). When I was trying to install the gammalink products, I seem to remember that the program loaded as a TSR and wanted 2.5MB of extended memory. Not something that can be loaded and unloaded with ease. But at least it's a PC solution. fax to postscript: well, I'm not sure where in the work I got it but I compiled a program that converts group 3 fax files into TIFF files and from there, you can use whatever file format converters that are out there (pbm, fbm, etc) to try and get it into a format where you can use whatever postscript tools you have to get it back into postscript. Of course, its all created on a UNIX system and it's not pretty. Finally, look into what Adobe is trying to do with their new postscript fax stuff. This is probably the best deal although I seem to remember it from their conference as being pretty basic and lackluster (rough impressions of their concept of postscript fax) when you compare it to some PC or PC network fax solutions out there now (think of postscript fax as remote postscript printing). Bob -- Bob Kusumoto | Find the electric messiah! Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | The AC/DC God! Bitnet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.bitnet | - My Life with the Thrill Kill UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | Kult, "Kooler than Jesus"