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viewfax-2.6p1

display files containing g3 and/or g4 coded fax pages

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Description

viewfax displays one or more fax files in an X11 window. The input files may be either raw, single-page faxes received by a fax modem with a program such as mgetty, or tiff files such as those used by hylafax. The first (or only) page of "PC-Research"-style (DigiFAX) files produced by the ghostscript dfaxhigh or dfaxlow drivers can also be displayed. Input files using any common fax encoding such as group 3 (1 and 2 dimensional) and group 4 can be displayed. The fax images are rendered at full resolution and then successively scaled down by a linear factor of 2 prior to display, until they fit on the screen. The display can be controlled interactively using mouse and keyboard commands.

Package information

Ports path
x11/viewfax
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
x11
Available flavors
None listed

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