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The <b>−x</b> and -<b>−y</b> options can be used to specify the -horizontal and vertical image resolutions (lines/inch), -respectively. If the <b>−S</b> option is specified, -each page is scaled to fill an output page. The default -output page is 8.5 by 11 inches. Alternate page dimensions -can be specified in inches with the <b>−W</b> and -<b>−H</b> options.</p> - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">By default -<i>fax2ps</i> generates PostScript for all pages in the -file. The <b>−p</b> option can be used to select one -or more pages from a multi-page document.</p> - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>fax2ps</i> -generates a compressed form of PostScript that is optimized -for sending pages of text to a PostScript printer attached -to a host through a low-speed link (such as a serial line). -Each output page is filled with white and then only the -black areas are drawn. The PostScript specification of the -black drawing operations is optimized by using a special -font that encodes the move-draw operations required to fill -the black regions on the page. This compression scheme -typically results in a substantially reduced PostScript -description, relative to the straightforward imaging of the -page with a PostScript <i>image</i> operator. This algorithm -can, however, be ineffective for continuous-tone and -white-on-black images. For these images, it sometimes is -more efficient to send the raster bitmap image directly; see -<b>tiff2ps</b>(1).</p> - -<h2>OPTIONS -<a name="OPTIONS"></a> -</h2> - - -<table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void" - cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> -<tr valign="top" align="left"> -<td width="11%"></td> -<td width="14%"> - - -<p style="margin-top: 1em"><b>−p</b> -<i>number</i></p> </td> -<td width="1%"></td> -<td width="74%"> - - -<p style="margin-top: 1em">Print only the indicated page. -Multiple pages may be printed by specifying this option more -than once.</p></td></tr> -</table> - -<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−x</b> -<i>resolution</i></p> - -<p style="margin-left:26%;">Use <i>resolution</i> as the -horizontal resolution, in dots/inch, of the image data. By -default this value is taken from the file.</p> - -<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−y</b> -<i>resolution</i></p> - -<p style="margin-left:26%;">Use <i>resolution</i> as the -vertical resolution, in lines/inch, of the image data. By -default this value is taken from the file.</p> - -<table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void" - cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> -<tr valign="top" align="left"> -<td width="11%"></td> -<td width="14%"> - - -<p><b>−S</b></p></td> -<td width="1%"></td> -<td width="74%"> - - -<p>Scale each page of image data to fill the output page -dimensions. By default images are presented according to the -dimension information recorded in the <small>TIFF</small> -file.</p> </td></tr> -<tr valign="top" align="left"> -<td width="11%"></td> -<td width="14%"> - - -<p><b>−W</b> <i>width</i></p></td> -<td width="1%"></td> -<td width="74%"> - - -<p>Use <i>width</i> as the width, in inches, of the output -page.</p> </td></tr> -<tr valign="top" align="left"> -<td width="11%"></td> -<td width="14%"> - - -<p><b>−H</b> <i>height</i></p></td> -<td width="1%"></td> -<td width="74%"> - - -<p>Use <i>height</i> as the height, in inches, of the -output page.</p></td></tr> -</table> - -<h2>DIAGNOSTICS -<a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a> -</h2> - - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Some messages -about malformed <small>TIFF</small> images come from the -<small>TIFF</small> library.</p> - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Various -messages about badly formatted facsimile images may be -generated due to transmission errors in received facsimile. -<i>fax2ps</i> attempts to recover from such data errors by -resynchronizing decoding at the end of the current scanline. -This can result in long horizontal black lines in the -resultant PostScript image.</p> - -<h2>NOTES -<a name="NOTES"></a> -</h2> - - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If the -destination printer supports PostScript Level II then it is -always faster to just send the encoded bitmap generated by -the <b>tiff2ps</b>(1) program.</p> - -<h2>BUGS -<a name="BUGS"></a> -</h2> - - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>fax2ps</i> -should probably figure out when it is doing a poor job of -compressing the output and just generate PostScript to image -the bitmap raster instead.</p> - -<h2>SEE ALSO -<a name="SEE ALSO"></a> -</h2> - - - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>tiff2ps</b>(1), -<b>libtiff</b>(3)</p> - -<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Libtiff library -home page: <b>http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</b></p> -<hr> -</body> -</html> |