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).

> 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 :

>> 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).

Lack of context I supose, Do not understand :)

Regards

bastien



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