faxing pcl files

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Hi,

Devin Redlich wrote:
> Hi. I'm running mgetty+sendfax 1.0.0 on a Redhat 5 machine. My problem is
> with converting pcl files to G3. I know this isn't specifically a
> mgetty+sendfax problem, but I was hoping someone here could lend assistance.
> 
> I've tried the hp2pbm package, but it isn't working for me. Any pcl file
> that contains bold text (which most of our's do) gets completely screwed
> up. Starting with the first bolded word, the text in the resulting G3 file
> seems to be compressed into a smaller point size. This makes the fax look
> sloppy because the text is a mixture of correct text and small text.
> Running the hp2hig3 conversion with the -v (verbose) option reveals that
> the converter is correctly identifying the bold and end or bold escape
> codes, but the resulting G3 looks all wrong.

Hmmm. Where did you get your hp2pbm package from? I know that there have
been various patch levels. On ftp.leo.org, you should find the latest
version.

(I never tried bold font, IIRC, but on the other hand, I didn't have any
major problems with it so far either [except the G3/EOL bug which has been
fixed ages ago]).

gert
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