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Re: Fax2ps program desperately needed

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From: Lance R. Bailey
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 09:44
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In article <1992Aug27.222432.917@news.acns.nwu.edu>  
cmbecker@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Canton Becker) writes:
>    I'm desperately need a fax2ps program that _works_.  (I've tried the
>fax2ps program that came with the Trufax modem my school uses, but it doesn't
>even put the %%!PS-Adobe header...)  Any help (even helpful flames) welcomed. 

tell your school to get an update of the s/w. the version of TruFax I use,
and just got, took a raw CCITT T.4 fax and created PostScript that the NeXT
could use with no problem. The header started with:
%!PS-Adobe-1.0

18 18 translate

575 689 scale
/FaxImage 216 string def

which looks like PostScript to me :)
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Lance R. Bailey  System/Network Manager         Robarts Research Institute
     NeXT/email: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca    box: Clinical Trials Resources Group
            fax: +1 519 663 3789                P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr.
            vox: +1 519 663 3787 x4108          London, Canada N6A 5K8
She's human...well, she's a lawyer, but reasonably human. -Professor Ralph  
Noble
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