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--- man/fax2ps.1.orig 2008-08-17 13:03:49.038994710 -0400
+++ man/fax2ps.1 2008-08-17 13:03:52.510994390 -0400
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.SH NAME
fax2ps \- convert a
.SM TIFF
-facsimile to compressed \*(Ps\(tm
+facsimile to compressed PostScript\(tm
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fax2ps
[
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
reads one or more
.SM TIFF
facsimile image files and prints a compressed form of
-\*(Ps on the standard output that is suitable for printing.
+PostScript on the standard output that is suitable for printing.
.PP
By default, each page is scaled to reflect the
image dimensions and resolutions stored in the file.
@@ -62,26 +62,26 @@
.PP
By default
.I fax2ps
-generates \*(Ps for all pages in the file.
+generates PostScript for all pages in the file.
The
.B \-p
option can be used to select one or more pages from
a multi-page document.
.PP
.I fax2ps
-generates a compressed form of \*(Ps that is
-optimized for sending pages of text to a \*(Ps
+generates a compressed form of PostScript that is
+optimized for sending pages of text to a PostScript
printer attached to a host through a low-speed link (such
as a serial line).
Each output page is filled with white and then only
the black areas are drawn.
-The \*(Ps specification of the black drawing operations
+The PostScript specification of the black drawing operations
is optimized by using a special font that encodes the
move-draw operations required to fill
the black regions on the page.
This compression scheme typically results in a substantially
-reduced \*(Ps description, relative to the straightforward
-imaging of the page with a \*(Ps
+reduced PostScript description, relative to the straightforward
+imaging of the page with a PostScript
.I image
operator.
This algorithm can, however, be ineffective
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@
attempts to recover from such data errors by resynchronizing
decoding at the end of the current scanline.
This can result in long horizontal black lines in the resultant
-\*(Ps image.
+PostScript image.
.SH NOTES
-If the destination printer supports \*(Ps Level II then
+If the destination printer supports PostScript Level II then
it is always faster to just send the encoded bitmap generated
by the
.BR tiff2ps (1)
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
.I fax2ps
should probably figure out when it is doing a poor
job of compressing the output and just generate
-\*(Ps to image the bitmap raster instead.
+PostScript to image the bitmap raster instead.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR tiff2ps (1),
.BR libtiff (3)
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