On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:55:55PM -0400, Bryan Feir wrote: > > Well, by default, pnmtops in the netpbm package will convert a Portable > aNyMap to Postscript, and always reduce it to fit on one page. (You can do > 'pnmtops -scale 0.25 <input |lpr' to explicitly scale it down; by default > it will enlarge the image four times to change a 72dpi image to a 300dpi > image, then reduce the result if it's too big for the page.) Nice thing > about the netpbm programs is they all take standard input and output, so > they can be used as chained filters and easily used for batch jobs. > > Might be useful if you gave us a better idea of what you were doing now, > what programs you were using (including which print filters) and what > intermediate formats.
Thanks for the detailed answer. I have cups 1.19 installed, a hp deskjet 990c, and use the driver for hpijs obtained from linuxprinting.org. In the configuration menu i have set the printer to use 300-dpi color draft mode. For scanning I use scanimage from the sane package. The output was converted through ppmtojpeg like this: scanimage --mode=color -r 300 |ppmtojpeg -q 85 >output.jpg identify from imagemagick tp;d ,e O jad 2532X35XX pixels, so to be safe I entered; convert -scale 2390 output.jpg output2.jpg finally: lpr output2.jpg with the result described earlier. In the cups documentation it is stated that cups supports jpegs 'out of the box', so I thought the procedure described was the logical thing to do. I'll give pnmtops a try tomorrow. Thanks again, Henk. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
