Converting program for mgetty faxes

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gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > George Vieira wrote:
> > > >     I have seen alot of converting program for mgetty faxes been received
> > > > but I'd like any program that can convert to a M$ format like JPG, TIF or
> > > > anything else..
> > > 
> > > g3topbm | pnmtotiff
> > 
> > is there anything to prepend a proper TIFF header to the raw g3 file
> > without having to process it  through the above pipe ?
> 
> I think hylafax has a "faxtotiff" program (or something similar),

fax2tiff.

Part of the libtiff package at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff

> which
> does exactly this.  I'm not sure how it handles byte padding issues,
> though.
> 
> > > (I want to point out that NEITHER JPG nor TIF are "M$ formats".  On the
> > > contrary: those are OPEN standards that work everywhere, as opposed to the
> > > usual M$ crap that works only with ONE version of ONE program).
> > 
> > and I wouldn't be surprised that some TIF readers under Windows only
> > accept a very limited choice of formats (TIFF being able to use a
> > number of different formats, compression methods etc.)
> 
> Yes.

Microsoft reportedly use a tiff/jpeg encoder that they bought from
Wang and that is gratuitously incompatible with the standard.

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