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fax2ps(1)			 User Commands			     fax2ps(1)

NAME
       fax2ps - convert a TIFF facsimile to compressed PostScript

SYNOPSIS
       fax2ps [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION
       fax2ps  reads  one or more TIFF facsimile image files and prints a com‐
       pressed form of PostScript that is suitable for printing on  the	 stan‐
       dard output.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -H height       Use  height  as	the  height,  in inches, of the output
		       page. The default page height is 11 inches.

       -p number       Print only the indicated page. To print multiple pages,
		       specify this option as often as required.

       -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 TIFF file.

       -W width	       Use  width as the width, in inches, of the output page.
		       The default page width is 8.5 inches.

       -x resolution   Use resolution as the horizontal	 resolution,  in  dots
		       per  inch, of the image data. By default, this value is
		       taken from the file.

       -y resolution   Use resolution as the vertical resolution, in lines per
		       inch,  of  the  image  data.  By default, this value is
		       taken from the file.

OPERANDS
       The following operands are supported:

       file	       The name of the TIFF facsimile image file  to  be  con‐
		       verted to compressed PostScript.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
       By  default,  each  page	 is scaled to reflect the image dimensions and
       resolutions stored in the file. The -x and -y options can  be  used  to
       specify the horizontal and vertical image resolutions, respectively. If
       the -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 -W and -H options.

       By default, fax2ps generates PostScript for all pages in the file.  You
       can use the -p option to select one or more pages from a multipage doc‐
       ument.

       fax2ps 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 Post‐
       Script 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 image	opera‐
       tor.  This  algorithm  can, however, be ineffective for continuous-tone
       and white-on-black images. For these images, it sometimes is more effi‐
       cient to send the raster bitmap image directly, see tiff2ps(1).	If the
       destination printer supports PostScript Level II, it is	always	faster
       to just send the encoded bitmap generated by the tiff2ps(1) command.

   Diagnostics
       Some messages about malformed TIFF images come from the TIFF library.

       Various	messages  about badly formatted facsimile images may be gener‐
       ated due to transmission errors in received facsimile. 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 PostScript image.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1: Converting the Tiff File test.tif to Compressed PostScript

       example% fax2ps test.tif

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │image/library/libtiff	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Interface stability	     │Uncommitted		   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       tiff2ps(1), libtiff(3)

NOTES
       Updated by Breda McColgan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.11			  26 Mar 2004			     fax2ps(1)
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