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<h1 align=center>FAX2PS</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br>
<a href="#NOTES">NOTES</a><br>
<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>

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<a name="NAME"></a>
<h2>NAME</h2>
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<p>fax2ps &minus; convert a <small>TIFF</small> facsimile to
compressed &trade;</p>
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<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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<p><b>fax2ps</b> [ <i>options</i> ] [ <i>file</i>... ]</p>
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<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<p><i>fax2ps</i> reads one or more <small>TIFF</small>
facsimile image files and prints a compressed form of on the
standard output that is suitable for printing.</p>
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<p>By default, each page is scaled to reflect the image
dimensions and resolutions stored in the file. The
<b>&minus;x</b> and <b>&minus;y</b> options can be used to
specify the horizontal and vertical image resolutions
(lines/inch), respectively. If the <b>&minus;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>&minus;W</b> and <b>&minus;H</b> options.</p>
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<p>By default <i>fax2ps</i> generates for all pages in the
file. The <b>&minus;p</b> option can be used to select one
or more pages from a multi-page document.</p>
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<p><i>fax2ps</i> generates a compressed form of that is
optimized for sending pages of text to a 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 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 description, relative to
the straightforward imaging of the page with a <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 <i>tiff2ps</i>(1).</p>
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<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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<p><b>&minus;p</b> <i>number</i></p>
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<p>Print only the indicated page. Multiple pages may be
printed by specifying this option more than once.</p>
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<p><b>&minus;x</b> <i>resolution</i></p></td>
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<p>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>
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<p><b>&minus;y</b> <i>resolution</i></p></td>
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<p>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>
</td>
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<p><b>&minus;S</b></p>
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<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>
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</td>
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<td width="11%">

<p><b>&minus;W</b> <i>width</i></p>
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<td width="1%"></td>
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<p>Use <i>width</i> as the width, in inches, of the output
page.</p>
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<td width="0%">
</td>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="10%"></td>
<td width="11%">

<p><b>&minus;H</b> <i>height</i></p>
</td>
<td width="1%"></td>
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<p>Use <i>height</i> as the height, in inches, of the
output page.</p>
</td>
<td width="0%">
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<h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2>
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<p>Some messages about malformed <small>TIFF</small> images
come from the <small>TIFF</small> library.</p>
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<p>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 image.</p>
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<h2>NOTES</h2>
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<p>If the destination printer supports Level II then it is
always faster to just send the encoded bitmap generated by
the <b>tiff2ps</b>(1) program.</p>
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<h2>BUGS</h2>
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<p><i>fax2ps</i> should probably figure out when it is doing
a poor job of compressing the output and just generate to
image the bitmap raster instead.</p>
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<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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<p><b>tiff2ps</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3)</p>
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<p>Libtiff library home page:
<b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p>
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	10
	11	<h1 align=center>FAX2PS</h1>
	12	<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
	13	<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
	14	<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
	15	<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
	16	<a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br>
	17	<a href="#NOTES">NOTES</a><br>
	18	<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
	19	<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
	20
	21	<hr>
	22	<a name="NAME"></a>
	23	<h2>NAME</h2>
	24	<!-- INDENTATION -->
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	29	<td width="91%">
	30	<p>fax2ps − convert a <small>TIFF</small> facsimile to
	31	compressed ™</p>
	32	</td>
	33	</table>
	34	<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
	35	<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
	36	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	37	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	38	cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	39	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	40	<td width="8%"></td>
	41	<td width="91%">
	42	<p><b>fax2ps</b> [ <i>options</i> ] [ <i>file</i>... ]</p>
	43	</td>
	44	</table>
	45	<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
	46	<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
	47	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	48	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	49	cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	50	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	51	<td width="8%"></td>
	52	<td width="91%">
	53	<p><i>fax2ps</i> reads one or more <small>TIFF</small>
	54	facsimile image files and prints a compressed form of on the
	55	standard output that is suitable for printing.</p>
	56	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	57	<p>By default, each page is scaled to reflect the image
	58	dimensions and resolutions stored in the file. The
	59	<b>−x</b> and <b>−y</b> options can be used to
	60	specify the horizontal and vertical image resolutions
	61	(lines/inch), respectively. If the <b>−S</b> option is
	62	specified, each page is scaled to fill an output page. The
	63	default output page is 8.5 by 11 inches. Alternate page
	64	dimensions can be specified in inches with the
	65	<b>−W</b> and <b>−H</b> options.</p>
	66	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	67	<p>By default <i>fax2ps</i> generates for all pages in the
	68	file. The <b>−p</b> option can be used to select one
	69	or more pages from a multi-page document.</p>
	70	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	71	<p><i>fax2ps</i> generates a compressed form of that is
	72	optimized for sending pages of text to a printer attached to
	73	a host through a low-speed link (such as a serial line).
	74	Each output page is filled with white and then only the
	75	black areas are drawn. The specification of the black
	76	drawing operations is optimized by using a special font that
	77	encodes the move-draw operations required to fill the black
	78	regions on the page. This compression scheme typically
	79	results in a substantially reduced description, relative to
	80	the straightforward imaging of the page with a <i>image</i>
	81	operator. This algorithm can, however, be ineffective for
	82	continuous-tone and white-on-black images. For these images,
	83	it sometimes is more efficient to send the raster bitmap
	84	image directly; see <i>tiff2ps</i>(1).</p>
	85	</td>
	86	</table>
	87	<a name="OPTIONS"></a>
	88	<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
	89	<!-- TABS -->
	90	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	91	cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	92	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	93	<td width="10%"></td>
	94	<td width="11%">
	95
	96	<p><b>−p</b> <i>number</i></p>
	97	</td>
	98	<td width="1%"></td>
	99	<td width="76%">
	100
	101	<p>Print only the indicated page. Multiple pages may be
	102	printed by specifying this option more than once.</p>
	103	</td>
	104	<td width="0%">
	105	</td>
	106	</table>
	107	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	108	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	109	cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	110	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	111	<td width="8%"></td>
	112	<td width="91%">
	113	<p><b>−x</b> <i>resolution</i></p></td>
	114	</table>
	115	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	116	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	117	cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	118	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	119	<td width="23%"></td>
	120	<td width="76%">
	121	<p>Use <i>resolution</i> as the horizontal resolution, in
	122	dots/inch, of the image data. By default this value is taken
	123	from the file.</p>
	124	</td>
	125	</table>
	126	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	127	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	128	cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	129	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	130	<td width="8%"></td>
	131	<td width="91%">
	132	<p><b>−y</b> <i>resolution</i></p></td>
	133	</table>
	134	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	135	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	136	cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	137	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	138	<td width="23%"></td>
	139	<td width="76%">
	140	<p>Use <i>resolution</i> as the vertical resolution, in
	141	lines/inch, of the image data. By default this value is
	142	taken from the file.</p>
	143	</td>
	144	</table>
	145	<!-- TABS -->
	146	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	147	cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	148	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	149	<td width="10%"></td>
	150	<td width="11%">
	151
	152	<p><b>−S</b></p>
	153	</td>
	154	<td width="1%"></td>
	155	<td width="76%">
	156
	157	<p>Scale each page of image data to fill the output page
	158	dimensions. By default images are presented according to the
	159	dimension information recorded in the <small>TIFF</small>
	160	file.</p>
	161	</td>
	162	<td width="0%">
	163	</td>
	164	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	165	<td width="10%"></td>
	166	<td width="11%">
	167
	168	<p><b>−W</b> <i>width</i></p>
	169	</td>
	170	<td width="1%"></td>
	171	<td width="76%">
	172
	173	<p>Use <i>width</i> as the width, in inches, of the output
	174	page.</p>
	175	</td>
	176	<td width="0%">
	177	</td>
	178	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	179	<td width="10%"></td>
	180	<td width="11%">
	181
	182	<p><b>−H</b> <i>height</i></p>
	183	</td>
	184	<td width="1%"></td>
	185	<td width="76%">
	186
	187	<p>Use <i>height</i> as the height, in inches, of the
	188	output page.</p>
	189	</td>
	190	<td width="0%">
	191	</td>
	192	</table>
	193	<a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a>
	194	<h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2>
	195	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	196	<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
	197	cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	198	<tr valign="top" align="left">
	199	<td width="8%"></td>
	200	<td width="91%">
	201	<p>Some messages about malformed <small>TIFF</small> images
	202	come from the <small>TIFF</small> library.</p>
	203	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	204	<p>Various messages about badly formatted facsimile images
	205	may be generated due to transmission errors in received
	206	facsimile. <i>fax2ps</i> attempts to recover from such data
	207	errors by resynchronizing decoding at the end of the current
	208	scanline. This can result in long horizontal black lines in
	209	the resultant image.</p>
	210	</td>
	211	</table>
	212	<a name="NOTES"></a>
	213	<h2>NOTES</h2>
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	219	<td width="91%">
	220	<p>If the destination printer supports Level II then it is
	221	always faster to just send the encoded bitmap generated by
	222	the <b>tiff2ps</b>(1) program.</p>
	223	</td>
	224	</table>
	225	<a name="BUGS"></a>
	226	<h2>BUGS</h2>
	227	<!-- INDENTATION -->
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	233	<p><i>fax2ps</i> should probably figure out when it is doing
	234	a poor job of compressing the output and just generate to
	235	image the bitmap raster instead.</p>
	236	</td>
	237	</table>
	238	<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
	239	<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
	240	<!-- INDENTATION -->
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	245	<td width="91%">
	246	<p><b>tiff2ps</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3)</p>
	247	<!-- INDENTATION -->
	248	<p>Libtiff library home page:
	249	<b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p>
	250	</td>
	251	</table>
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