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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: TIFF to PostScript <>
Keywords: Postscript tiff ps conversion
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.161448.3784@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 16:14:48 GMT
References: <1991May31.181617.16503@towers.uucp> <1991Jun17.183228.23939@kofax.uucp>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1991Jun17.183228.23939@kofax.uucp> wes@kofax.uucp (Wes Chalfant) writes:
>In article <1991May31.181617.16503@towers.uucp> robert@towers.uucp (Robert Hoquim) writes:
>>I am in need of a way to take a Postscript file and convert it to a tiff
>>file for transmission over a fax modem.  The software for the fax is the
>>DigiFax software by DigiBoard Inc., which should have no effect on the
>>conversion software, just thought I would throw it in.  If anyone has any
>>information about such a utility that can go one way or both please let me
>>know.  The OS of choice is ISC, but anything in source or even DOS (vpix?)
>>would sure be of help.
>
>	Depending on what you want to buy and what you want to port,
>there are a couple of alternatives.
>
>	The GNU Ghostscript program does a very nice job of composing a
>bitmap image of postscript input.  You would probably want to write
>your own ghostscript "driver"; for what you want to do, that is really
>quite easy.  Your driver would tell the Ghostscript kernel what
>resolution to use (you would probably use either standard or "fine"
>FAX modes, which are approx. 200x100 and 200x200 pixels per inch,
>respectively) and what to do with the bitmap after it was composed in
>memory (probably to write it out as a TIFF file).  Ghostscript is
>available either directly from the Free Software Foundation or through
>an archive site for GNU software (e.g. uunet).

Also available is Jef Posanker's pbmplus package. You can convert between
all sorts of formats with that particular package. It should work under ISC.

Dylan.
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