mgetty+sendfax

[Hugh Esco]

Here is a working shell script to convert a lanscape postscript file into
a pdf file.  I'm no ghostscript expert, but after an hour or so of
studying the man page and tweaking this short script, I finally got it to
work without all the ugly obtuse errors.  Feel free to adapt from
here.

#!/bin/sh
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$1".pdf -g6120x7920 \
-dBATCH -dNOPAUSE "$1".ps

-- Hugh Esco

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Thanks to all those who answered my bash scripting question.
> I'm running into more problems, so maybe I'm better off describing
> what it is I'm trying to do.
>
> Basically, I want to have a script that will accept a phone number,
> and the name of a text file on the command line.
> It would then use ghost script to turn the txt file into a g3 file,
> and envoke sendfax to send a fax.
>
> When I want to convert a text file to a g3 file with gs, I am doing:
>
> gs -sDEVICE=faxg3 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fax.g3.%d file.txt
>
> but, I get a whole bunch of error messages from gs:
>
> GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13)
> Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
> reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for
> details.
> Error: /undefined in This
> Operand stack:
>
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>    --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   2   3
>   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1
>    %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
>    %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>    --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
>    --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:916/1241(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:50/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 5
> GS>
>
> Then, I type quit to get out of ghost script.
>
> If anybody could please tell me how to do what I'm trying to do
> correctly, or better yet, if somebody already has a script that does
> this, I would very much welcome the help/script.
> Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
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