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| author | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net> | 2015-11-06 05:38:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net> | 2015-11-06 05:38:49 +0100 |
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diff --git a/tiff/html/man/fax2ps.1.html b/tiff/html/man/fax2ps.1.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..aba6fc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/tiff/html/man/fax2ps.1.html @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@ +<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --> +<!-- CreationDate: Sat Feb 24 18:37:18 2007 --> +<html> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> +<meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> +<title>FAX2PS</title> +</head> +<body> + +<h1 align=center>FAX2PS</h1> +<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> +<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> +<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> +<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> +<a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br> +<a href="#NOTES">NOTES</a><br> +<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br> +<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> + +<hr> +<a name="NAME"></a> +<h2>NAME</h2> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p>fax2ps − convert a <small>TIFF</small> facsimile to +compressed PostScript™</p> +</td> +</table> +<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> +<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p><b>fax2ps</b> [ <i>options</i> ] [ <i>file ...</i> ]</p> +</td> +</table> +<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> +<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p><i>fax2ps</i> reads one or more <small>TIFF</small> +facsimile image files and prints a compressed form of +PostScript on the standard output that is suitable for +printing.</p> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<p>By default, each page is scaled to reflect the image +dimensions and resolutions stored in the file. The +<b>−x</b> and <b>−y</b> options can be used to +specify the horizontal and vertical image resolutions +(lines/inch), respectively. If the <b>−S</b> option is +specified, each page is scaled to fill an output page. The +default output page is 8.5 by 11 inches. Alternate page +dimensions can be specified in inches with the +<b>−W</b> and <b>−H</b> options.</p> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<p>By default <i>fax2ps</i> generates PostScript for all +pages in the file. The <b>−p</b> option can be used to +select one or more pages from a multi-page document.</p> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<p><i>fax2ps</i> generates a compressed form of PostScript +that is optimized for sending pages of text to a PostScript +printer attached to a host through a low-speed link (such as +a serial line). Each output page is filled with white and +then only the black areas are drawn. The PostScript +specification of the black drawing operations is optimized +by using a special font that encodes the move-draw +operations required to fill the black regions on the page. +This compression scheme typically results in a substantially +reduced PostScript description, relative to the +straightforward imaging of the page with a PostScript +<i>image</i> operator. This algorithm can, however, be +ineffective for continuous-tone and white-on-black images. +For these images, it sometimes is more efficient to send the +raster bitmap image directly; see <b>tiff2ps</b>(1).</p> +</td> +</table> +<a name="OPTIONS"></a> +<h2>OPTIONS</h2> +<!-- TABS --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="11%"></td> +<td width="11%"> + +<p><b>−p</b> <i>number</i></p> +</td> +<td width="76%"> + +<p>Print only the indicated page. Multiple pages may be +printed by specifying this option more than once.</p> +</td> +<td width="0%"> +</td> +</table> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p><b>−x</b> <i>resolution</i></p></td> +</table> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="23%"></td> +<td width="76%"> +<p>Use <i>resolution</i> as the horizontal resolution, in +dots/inch, of the image data. By default this value is taken +from the file.</p> +</td> +</table> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p><b>−y</b> <i>resolution</i></p></td> +</table> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="23%"></td> +<td width="76%"> +<p>Use <i>resolution</i> as the vertical resolution, in +lines/inch, of the image data. By default this value is +taken from the file.</p> +</td> +</table> +<!-- TABS --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="10%"></td> +<td width="12%"> + +<p><b>−S</b></p> +</td> +<td width="76%"> + +<p>Scale each page of image data to fill the output page +dimensions. By default images are presented according to the +dimension information recorded in the <small>TIFF</small> +file.</p> +</td> +<td width="0%"> +</td> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="10%"></td> +<td width="12%"> + +<p><b>−W</b> <i>width</i></p> +</td> +<td width="76%"> + +<p>Use <i>width</i> as the width, in inches, of the output +page.</p> +</td> +<td width="0%"> +</td> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="10%"></td> +<td width="12%"> + +<p><b>−H</b> <i>height</i></p> +</td> +<td width="76%"> + +<p>Use <i>height</i> as the height, in inches, of the +output page.</p> +</td> +<td width="0%"> +</td> +</table> +<a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a> +<h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p>Some messages about malformed <small>TIFF</small> images +come from the <small>TIFF</small> library.</p> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<p>Various messages about badly formatted facsimile images +may be generated due to transmission errors in received +facsimile. <i>fax2ps</i> attempts to recover from such data +errors by resynchronizing decoding at the end of the current +scanline. This can result in long horizontal black lines in +the resultant PostScript image.</p> +</td> +</table> +<a name="NOTES"></a> +<h2>NOTES</h2> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p>If the destination printer supports PostScript Level II +then it is always faster to just send the encoded bitmap +generated by the <b>tiff2ps</b>(1) program.</p> +</td> +</table> +<a name="BUGS"></a> +<h2>BUGS</h2> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p><i>fax2ps</i> should probably figure out when it is doing +a poor job of compressing the output and just generate +PostScript to image the bitmap raster instead.</p> +</td> +</table> +<a name="SEE ALSO"></a> +<h2>SEE ALSO</h2> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" + cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<tr valign="top" align="left"> +<td width="8%"></td> +<td width="91%"> +<p><b>tiff2ps</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3)</p> +<!-- INDENTATION --> +<p>Libtiff library home page: +<b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p> +</td> +</table> +<hr> +</body> +</html> |