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From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Faxing gif-files
Date: 6 Jan 1996 09:25:31 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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HylaFAX tries, but fails -- gif2tiff comlaints about invalid options
(specified in typerules file). Running gif2tiff manually (with valid
options) produces tiff unsuitable for faxing (not group 3). Other tiff
tools do not help either. Imagemagick's convert can produce FAX-file 
(whatever that is), but sendfax does not take them (uknown file format).
The only choice left is convert to PostScript, but that seems to be
wastefull. Thanks for hints (including the name of more appropriate
news-group, if you any -- I can't find)!

	-mi