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- This is cpctopbm, a tool that will convert fax files as produced by the
- PC hardware/software product 'The Complete FAX' and convert them to the
- PBM Portable BitMap format. You can use this and the appropriate PBM
- Toolkit program to convert Complete Fax files to PostScript, or display
- them in an X window, or whatever you like.
-
- Note that the Complete PC people have three different file formats
- (see the "File-Formats" file) and this program only works with
- format 1, FAX files. That's all I have to test. It probably wouldn't
- be hard to make it work with theother formats.
-
-
- Here at IU we have a PC with a complete fax card and an ethernet board.
- We FTP the various fax files (which are stored one page per file)
- onto another machine, and then run them through cpctopbm and
- other various filters. Some possibilities are:
-
- # convert to postscript and print
- cpctopbm fax-file.001 | pgmtops -scale 0.33333 | lpr
-
- # Using X Windows, view several pages of the same fax in succession, using
- # the PD 'xloadimage' program, which can display a variety of
- # formats, including PBM.
-
-
- cpctopbm fax-file.001 >page1.pbm
- cpctopbm fax-file.002 >page2.pbm
- .. etc etc ..
- xloadimage -slideshow page1.pbm page2.pbm ...
-
- 'xview' is another program that can be used to display PBM files.
-
- Unfortunately none of this is particularly fast. You may want to
- play around with scaling the PBM images to some other size so
- that they display faster. These bitmaps are 1728 pixels wide, which
- is probably wider than your screen can display (although tools like
- xloadimage and xview let you scroll around.)
- We're still experimenting too.
-
-
- Feel free to pass bugs or suggestions along to me.
-
- Steve Hayman
- Indiana University
- sahayman@cs.indiana.edu
- Fri Dec 14 16:15:16 EST 1990
-