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diff --git a/tiff/man/fax2ps.1 b/tiff/man/fax2ps.1 new file mode 100755 index 0000000..9525f20 --- /dev/null +++ b/tiff/man/fax2ps.1 @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +.\" $Id: fax2ps.1,v 1.4 2006-04-20 12:17:19 dron Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Sam Leffler +.\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and +.\" its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided +.\" that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in +.\" all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of +.\" Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or +.\" publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written +.\" permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +.\" EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY +.\" WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. +.\" +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, +.\" OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, +.\" WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF +.\" LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE +.\" OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.ds Ps PostScript +.if n .po 0 +.TH FAX2PS 1 "November 2, 2005" "libtiff" +.SH NAME +fax2ps \- convert a +.SM TIFF +facsimile to compressed \*(Ps\(tm +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B fax2ps +[ +.I options +] [ +.I file ...\& +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I fax2ps +reads one or more +.SM TIFF +facsimile image files and prints a compressed form of +\*(Ps on the standard output that is suitable for printing. +.PP +By default, each page is scaled to reflect the +image dimensions and resolutions stored in the file. +The +.B \-x +and +.B \-y +options can be used to specify the horizontal and vertical +image resolutions (lines/inch), respectively. +If the +.B \-S +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 +and +.B \-H +options. +.PP +By default +.I fax2ps +generates \*(Ps for all pages in the file. +The +.B \-p +option can be used to select one or more pages from +a multi-page document. +.PP +.I fax2ps +generates a compressed form of \*(Ps that is +optimized for sending pages of text to a \*(Ps +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 \*(Ps 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 \*(Ps description, relative to the straightforward +imaging of the page with a \*(Ps +.I image +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 +.BR tiff2ps (1). +.SH OPTIONS +.TP 10 +.BI \-p " number" +Print only the indicated page. +Multiple pages may be printed by specifying +this option more than once. +.TP 10 +.BI \-x " resolution" +Use +.I resolution +as the horizontal resolution, in dots/inch, of the image data. +By default this value is taken from the file. +.TP 10 +.BI \-y " resolution" +Use +.I resolution +as the vertical resolution, in lines/inch, of the image data. +By default this value is taken from the file. +.TP 10 +.B \-S +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 +.SM TIFF +file. +.TP 10 +.BI \-W " width" +Use +.I width +as the width, in inches, of the output page. +.TP 10 +.BI \-H " height" +Use +.I height +as the height, in inches, of the output page. +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +Some messages about malformed +.SM TIFF +images come from the +.SM TIFF +library. +.PP +Various messages about badly formatted facsimile images +may be generated due to transmission errors in received +facsimile. +.I fax2ps +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 +\*(Ps image. +.SH NOTES +If the destination printer supports \*(Ps Level II then +it is always faster to just send the encoded bitmap generated +by the +.BR tiff2ps (1) +program. +.SH BUGS +.I fax2ps +should probably figure out when it is doing a poor +job of compressing the output and just generate +\*(Ps to image the bitmap raster instead. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR tiff2ps (1), +.BR libtiff (3) +.PP +Libtiff library home page: +.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ |