imagemagick / hylafax question
mike neuliep
mike at marauder.illiana.net
Thu Nov 14 00:47:44 CST 2002
Hello All,
I'm currently using hylafax to receive faxes on a debian 3.0r0 system.
This works extremely well and the next thing I'd like to be able to
do is to print the faxes from the command line. Here's the catch:
Hylafax stores multi-page faxes as 1728x1025 images. This is roughly a
1.7 by 1.0 ratio. The effect is that the fax squished top to bottom greatly.
Now, if I use gnu-halifax I can print everything to a postscript printer
all peachy-keen. It prints out the fax the same way a fax machine would
do so. I'm using a2ps with imagemagick as the helper to print faxes (.tif
files) from the command line. Imagemagick no matter how I resize the tif
wants to keep the same 1.7 by 1.0 ratio. This makes for lousy printing of
a fax. Does anyone know of a better way to print faxes? BTW I'm using
CUPS as my spooler, it seems to work really well. I know someone out here
on kclug once mentions that they process about 4000 faxes a month with
hylafax so I am hoping that person could help me.
Mike
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