Converting program for mgetty faxes

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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), 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.

gert

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