Is this normal?

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:33:17 +0100

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Hi,

On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:52:51AM -0800, Devin Redlich wrote:
> Hi.  Running mgetty on a pentium 166 (sco OSV), when I receive a fax that I
> want to send to a printer, it takes about 1 minute *per page* to convert
> the g3 files to pcl using the command:
> 
> g3topbm fax.g3 | \
> pnmscale -xysize 2479 3508 | \
> pgmtopnm -fs | \

those two are real memory and CPU pigs.  

> pbmtolj -resolution 300 >> pclfile
> 
> Is it normal for this to be so slow?  Anyone have a preferred g3->pcl
> method?

g32pbm -l 

should do the conversion and scaling for you, and a lot faster.

gert
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