PSIFILE(1) PSIFILE(1)
NAME
psifile, mhssend- postscript interpreter/fax sender
SYNOPSIS
psifile [ option ... ] [ file ]
mhssend phone_number file
DESCRIPTION
Psifile reads Postscript input from file or from standard
input and produces a file containing an image of the page.
The format of the output file is specified by the following
options:
-fax runs at 200 dpi and produces g31 fax in the multi-
page fax format called mhs, putting its output in
file fax$$.mhs by default. If a phone number is
supplied, the output file is pushed to /tmp on
fama and mhssend is run to send the fax.
-P phone_no
specifies the destination phone number for -fax.
-g4 runs at 300 dpi and produces a fax g4 file called
psi.out.g4 by default that can be displayed on the
gnots with rbits.
-bm produces bitfile(9.5) output in file psi.out by
default. -bm is useful for debugging postscript
programs because it has better diagnostics than
the printers.
Other options are
-s assumes the file is in mhs format and sends it to
the phone number provided with -P above.
-o name use name as the basename of the output file.
-p page only output postscript page number page as deter-
mined by %%Page comments in the file.
Fonts are implemented with 24 point bitmap fonts. Those
available are Symbol, Courier, Times-Roman, Times-Italic,
Times-Bold, Times-BoldItalic, Helvetica, Helvetica-Oblique,
Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique. Fonts Courier-Bold,
Courier-Oblique, and Courier-BoldOblique are mapped to
Courier. Postscript type 1 fonts are implemented and work
if supplied with the input.
For best results with TeX documents, run dvips with the
-Tfax or -D 200 option to get fonts of the proper resolu-
tion.
EXAMPLES
troff -ms memo | lp -dstdout -H | psifile -fax -P 4223
troff -ms memo | dpost | psifile -fax -P 4223
PSIFILE(1) PSIFILE(1)
Two equivalent ways to format a memo, convert it to
PostScript, and produce a fax file.
FILES
default -fax output file
default -g4 output file
default -bm output file
/usr/lib/psi/psifax postscript->mhs format program
/usr/lib/psi/psifaxg4 postscript->fax g4 program
/usr/lib/psi/psibm postscript->bitfile program
SEE ALSO
psi(9.1), lp(1), dvips(1), postscript(8), proof(9.1), bcp(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
Symbols that lack bitmaps are replaced by `?' and an error
is reported.
BUGS
Unimplemented PostScript features are rotated images and
half tone screens. Imagemasks may only be rotated by multi-
ples of 90 degrees, not by arbitrary angles.