SFFTOBMP(1)

💖 SFFTOBMP(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to sfftobmp, the SFF (Structured Fax File) Converter, sitting pretty in the User Commands section of your manual. she's an icon, she's a legend, and she turns your weird little fax files into pictures. let's get into it ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sfftobmp [options] INFILE1 [INFILE2 ..] [-o OUTSPEC]

yes that's the whole vibe. you feed her fax files, she feeds you images. slay. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, -help — shows you this message and dips. the "help me bestie" flag 🫶
• -v, -version — shows the version and exits. she's telling you who she is, main character behavior fr
• -b, -bmp — output is one monochrome BMP file for each fax page. one page, one file, no sharing 🦋
• -p, -pbm — output is one Portable Bitmap file for each fax page. pbm girlies rise up ✨
• -j, -jpg — output is one JPEG file for each fax page. lossy but cute 💜
• -jNUM, -jpg=NUM — use jpeg quality of NUM percent, and NUM lives between 1 and 99. so like -j85 or -jpg=85, pick your poison 🍓
• -T, -tifs — output is one single-page TIFF file for each fax page. every page gets her own little file 💅
• -t, -tif — output is one multi-paged TIFF file containing all pages. everyone's together in one big happy file 🥰
• -r, -keepres — inhibits line doubling for low-res faxes. like, don't stretch her out, let her be lowkey 🌈
• -d, -keepdate — keeps the date and time of the input file for the output file(s). nostalgia preservation, honestly iconic 🕰️

📁 how OUTSPEC gets read 📁

• a filename if only one input file is given
• a directory name if more than one input file is given

if OUTSPEC is omitted, the name of the output files will be derived from the input files and created in the same directory. so she just figures it out herself, no cap 🧚

output on stdout is available for multipaged TIFF output only (that's option "-t"). use "-" as output filename in this case.

🗜️ TIFF compression specifiers 🗜️

in case of TIFF output, you can specify the compression by using additional specifiers:

• -tr resp. -Tr — CCITT modified Huffman RLE
• -t4 resp. -T4 — CCITT Fax Class 4 compression

the default is CCITT Fax Class 3 compression. so if you don't say anything, she's picking Class 3 for you, periodt 💖

👑 the legal bit (yes we're doing this) 👑

SffToBmp Version 3.0 Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Peter Schaefer-Hutter and contributors. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the enclosed license. See the file COPYING for details. If you haven't got this file, please contact peter.schaefer@gmx.de. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 😭 (dramatic but real, bestie — no warranty, fr fr)

Contributors: Ulf Zibis <ulf.zibis@gmx.de> and Gernot Hillier <ghillie@suse.de> 💜 thank you for your service, kings

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• sffview(1)
• The full documentation for sfftobmp is in /usr/share/doc/sfftobmp/readme.gz — go read her, iykyk 📖✨

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🎀 this was sfftobmp from January 2005, version SFFTOBMP(1), and she's still serving. mwah, bye bestie 💅💖🌸