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). > > Lack of context I supose, Do not understand :) > > Regards > > bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
