eFax tiff viewer?

ccn

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Sep 11, 2003, 9:30:13 PM9/11/03

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eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.

Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax?

Tnx

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Carl Fink

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Sep 11, 2003, 11:30:13 PM9/11/03

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote:
> eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
>
> Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax?

I asked this very question on this very list, years ago.

Display from the ImageMagick package works fine.

BTW, as of 2000 you could run the eFax viewer (Windows software)
under WINE just fine. I did.
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Brian Potkin

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Sep 12, 2003, 5:00:16 AM9/12/03

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote:

> eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
>
> Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax?

A lightweight and efficient solution is to use viewfax. It's in the
mgetty-viewfax package.

Brian.

Andy Firman

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Sep 12, 2003, 1:10:10 PM9/12/03

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:24:41PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote:
> > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> > gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
> >
> > Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax?
>
> I asked this very question on this very list, years ago.
>
> Display from the ImageMagick package works fine.

I use KFax 1.3.0 (which is in KDE 3.1.3) for Efax .tif files.

It works very well for me.

Andy

Karsten M. Self

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Sep 14, 2003, 4:20:10 AM9/14/03

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on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn (ble...@comcast.net) wrote:
> eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
>
> Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax?

Brian Potkin

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Sep 14, 2003, 5:20:17 AM9/14/03

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:13:06AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn (ble...@comcast.net) wrote:
> > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> > gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
> >
> > Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax?
>
> Related question.
>
> I'm getting documents in a multi-page tiff format. I'd like to split
> these to a single file per page. I haven't found a tool which does this
> automatically. Any suggestions?

tiffsplit from the libtiff-tools package may be what you want. It is
some time since I've used it and there isn't a multi-page tiff around
for me to try it on, so to what extent it works I do not know.

Brian.

Vineet Kumar

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Sep 14, 2003, 5:30:06 AM9/14/03

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* Karsten M. Self (kms...@ix.netcom.com) [030914 01:12]:

> on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn (ble...@comcast.net) wrote:
> > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> > gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
> >
> > Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax?
>
> Related question.
>
> I'm getting documents in a multi-page tiff format. I'd like to split
> these to a single file per page. I haven't found a tool which does this
> automatically. Any suggestions?

Given that ImageMagick's display can display them, I'd bet that
convert(1) can pull this off, at least with a bit of coaxing. The
manpage shows an example for converting a postscript document into
individual fax pages; I'd bet it would work just right if you just
specified the multi-page tiff as the source file in place of the
postscript:

convert document.tiff fax:page

(untested)

good times,
Vineet
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