[wellylug] How to electronically modify a PDF to fax from GNU/Linux?

Damon Lynch damon at photo.geek.nz
Mon Dec 22 13:49:52 NZDT 2003


Hi,

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 21:03, Valient Gough wrote:
> I just had to do the same thing.  In my case someone sent me a DOC
> file, so I used OpenOffice to save it to a PDF, then used pdftopbm
> (came as part of xpdf RPM) to convert to a PBM graphics file.

Thanks, that did the trick.

> I saved it to a TIFF file and uploaded it to my maxemail.com account
> to be faxed.  Total cost to fax back a signed page to New Zealand from
> the US: $0.36.  Time wasted: priceless. :-)

I haven't yet mustered the confidence to use the Internet faxing
services for my documents.  Have you found the service to be 100%
reliable?

Thanks again,
Damon




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