contatenate fax in pdf
Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:19:14 +0200
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 02:51:48PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> do you know of any easy way to make so the user receives a *PDF*
> which has page 1 as page 1 of fax, etc ?
Nothing I know of, but it should be doable by constructing ps files
(ideally something like "pbmtolps" with line graphics, not bitmaps) and
then building an PDF file from there - PDF is not much more than
"postscript with some more headers".
> I can convert g3 to ps through pbm, I attempted to concatenate the
> ps files with diverse tools, I tried to use gs and multiple ps
> argument files, but none of this works.
>
> It's not very important, but could be interesting, since PDF
> is probably today the ``most portable format'' (except ASCII).
Well, I managed to do it :) - wasn't that hard actually...:
[gert@noisy /tmp]$ for i in ff71468065b*g3 ; do g3topbm <$i | pbmtolps >>i.ps ;done
[gert@noisy /tmp]$ ps2pdf i.ps
[gert@noisy /tmp]$ acroread i.pdf
-> works, but it's massively ugly:
[gert@noisy /tmp]$ ls -l i* ff*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gert gert 21315537 Apr 18 14:11 i.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gert gert 4179313 Apr 18 14:10 i.ps
21 Mbytes!!! as compared to below 1Mb for the G3 files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 gert gert 91550 Apr 18 15:05 ff71468065b-_-+49-8932356299_.01.g3
-rw-r--r-- 1 gert gert 134661 Apr 18 15:05 ff71468065b-_-+49-8932356299_.02.g3
-rw-r--r-- 1 gert gert 133488 Apr 18 15:05 ff71468065b-_-+49-8932356299_.03.g3
-rw-r--r-- 1 gert gert 128271 Apr 18 15:05 ff71468065b-_-+49-8932356299_.04.g3
-rw-r--r-- 1 gert gert 139522 Apr 18 15:05 ff71468065b-_-+49-8932356299_.05.g3
-rw-r--r-- 1 gert gert 121609 Apr 18 15:05 ff71468065b-_-+49-8932356299_.06.g3
gert
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