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I need to know how to convert 132 columns text file to Postcript by using ghostscript. What I want to do is to fax a 132 columns
report (text file) with efax and I was told to use ghostscript to change the type and szie of font so the lines will not wrap.


Thanks

Other then ghostscript method i suggest you to use efix in efax.The efix program can be used to convert text-only files to postscript format. For example, the following command will convert the text file letter to the files letter.001, letter.002, etc,:

efix -nletter.%03d <letter

The efix program can also insert bitmaps in images to create letterhead, signatures, etc. Ghostscript's tiffg3 driver can generate fax files in TIFF-G3 format from postscript files. For example, the command:

gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -dNOPAUSE \ -sOutputFile=letter.%03d letter.ps </dev/null

will convert the Postscript file letter.ps into high-resolution (vr=1) G3 fax image files letter.001 & letter.002.