Re: Converting Group 3 FAX files to Postscript, GIF

• To: difax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, csetzer@xxxxxxxx, support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mfortune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Re: Converting Group 3 FAX files to Postscript, GIF
• From: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gilbert Sebenste)
• Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 14:49:21 -0600

Hello All,

I've read all of the email from the start of this list to November 28, then 
Dec. 6 through now. If this is repetitive information, I apologize.

I had a little spare time this afternoon to play around with PBMplus and 
converted a DiFAX map in group 3 fax format to Postscript and GIF. The 
Postscript file was acceptable, but definitely below par of what a laser 
printer can do; the GIF file was horrible.

I went to the "weather talk" email list and asked if there were other options 
since I'm not well versed on file converters.  I did get some interesting responses:

Meta Sienkiewicz <meta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi:
        You didn't mention what platform (PC, Unix, whatever) you wanted to do 
this on.  For Unix X11, another possibility (besides PBM) is the ImageMagick 
package available from 'ftp.x.org' as 
contrib/applications/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-3.4.tar.gz.  To work with 
Postscript this also requires the 'gs' (ghostscript) translator.  I hadn't 
tried converting from Group 3 Fax with this but was happy with some other 
conversions, display, etc.  YMMV.  My opinions only, etc.

Meta Sienkiewicz

Well, I hope this helps. Don't have much more time to fool with this, but I 
gave it somewhat of a shot. I'll keep trying...

Gilbert