On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:42 PM, David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2009 22:14:10 roucaries bastien wrote: >> retitle 514321 Documentation bug: document density for fax image >> thanks >> >> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 8:32 PM, David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: >> > On Saturday 14 February 2009 20:55:09 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> >> severity 514321 wishlist >> >> thanks >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> You type convert resume.pdf 3g:resume.002 instead of convert resume.pdf >> >> g3:resume.002 >> > >> > Are you referring to unstable/testing or experimental? I put unstable >> > back. Easy enough to try. Which one is supposed to be correct? >> >> Both 3g is not a Fax format it is g3 (dylexia ;) ) Therefore if you >> use 3g convert will flatten ie convert to bitmap your pdf and store as >> pdf (check with file the output). > Yes, dyslexia. I have been using g3. So the typo was in the bug report. >> >> > In any event, outputting a file named "3g:...." is not desired behavior. >> > Linux will eat it. Windows will certainly not. >> >> According to upstream it is : > If the command format is ... g3:outputfile, then the "g3:" is syntax, not > filename. While Debian Linux will allow a file name like"g3\:name" (which is > how it displays it, not much else will correctly save a file that way. Anyway, > if I want that, I will type ...g3:g3:.... and may the lord have mercy. > > If we are changing the syntax to something like > conver infile -fmt g3 outfile, I'm cool with that. Just let us all know. > >> >> Could you retest using density operator convert -density 200 resume.pdf >> >> g3:im.fax >> > >> > Beautiful. Gave me a normal page layout and very nice quality as well. >> > Took much longer, however (subjective). >> > >> >> The g3 format is a fixed width of 1728 as required by the standard. >> > >> > OK. I think this width is what I am seeing (but the density 200 image >> > SHOWED the normal page layout in viewfax). >> > >> > There is some confusion in the "magic" numbers. >> >> Sorry ? Could you >> >> > The output of a ghostscript conversion is shown as a page format rather >> > than that fixed width. Imagemagick does not see this as a tiff-g3 (or is >> > it tiff-3g?) format! >> >> If you specify 3g it is normal. Please send input and output each time >> you suspect incorrect behavior >> >> > On the other hand, the mimi-types reported in KDE apparently >> > do not see imagemagick's a such. >> >> Yes, but fill a bug against kde :) >> >> > My code will not call convert on text or >> > tiff-g3 mime-types since efax will eat them. Efax accepts both claimed 3g >> > formats (since one may be a bpm format also acceptable to efix).
Could try the following script shell on experimental and on unstable and post the output ? Please delete all file except pdf and shell script before running it :) Regards
test.sh
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