G3 conversion

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Hi,

On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 11:18:46PM +0000, Henning Jebsen wrote:
> > fax2tiff -M -o out.tif infile
> fax2tiff -M -1 -o out.tif g3file
> try the switch -1 or -4 (see mangage)
> ... but not useable, it resizes the fax to about
> 1700something x 2000something.

It doesn't "resize", that *is* the size of a fax file.

> Much too big. I tried all other parameters. And a bug: fax2tiff
> Always/mostly leaves a file names fax.gif in the target directory.
> Seems like a tmpfile during conversion, but forgotten to
> be deleted.

Unlikely.  Why should fax2tiff create a file named *.gif?  Sounds more
like some leftover of the other conversion experiments with pnmtogif.

[..]
> So I also search for another Prg to convert g3 to <any_standart_format>.
> Any hints ?

pbmtools.  They are slow, but are the most flexible tools available.  Get
more RAM, and the speed improves :)

> PBMtools are too slow:
> 486/66 32MB needs 3 hours (!) to handle 8 instances of this command:
> g32pbm <file> | pnmscale 0.5 |ppmtogif > fax.gif

Don't run them in parallel!!!

gert
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