CHOPTEST(8)

💖 CHOPTEST(8) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to choptest from the System Manager's Manual — it's the HylaFAX page chopping test program and honestly? she's a little niche but she serves. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

choptest — HylaFAX page chopping test program 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/sbin/choptest [ options ] input.tif

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, choptest is a program for testing the page chopping support in the HylaFAX software — and yes, specifically in the faxq(8) program, iykyk. 💅

she takes a TIFF/F (that's TIFF Class F, bestie) file with 1-D MH- or 2-D MR-encoded data and reports what the automatic page chopping logic would do if that file were submitted for transmission. no cap. it's literally just a vibe check for your fax pages.

and there's options, because of course there are: you can control whether choptest checks the last page or all pages of the document, and you can pick what whitespace threshold to use when deciding if a page should be chopped. iconic behavior, truly. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -a — chop all pages in the document. this is equivalent to setting the PageChop configuration parameter to all; c.f. hylafax-config(5). by default only the last page of the document is considered. 🫶
• -t inches — set the minimum whitespace threshold that must be present on a page for it to be chopped. this is equivalent to the PageChopThreshold configuration parameter; c.f. hylafax-config(5). by default choptest requires that at least 3 inches of trailing whitespace be present. 🌸

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

here's a multi-page, high-resolution document moment for you. every single page has insufficient whitespace for it to be chopped, so nobody's getting the chop today bestie 😭

hyla% ./choptest -a ~/tiff/pics/faxix.tif
Chop pages with >=3" of white space at the bottom.
Don't chop, found 67 rows, need 588 rows
Don't chop, found 67 rows, need 588 rows
Don't chop, found 67 rows, need 588 rows
Don't chop, found 53 rows, need 588 rows
Don't chop, found 91 rows, need 588 rows
Don't chop, found 99 rows, need 588 rows
Don't chop, found 47 rows, need 588 rows

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

faxq(8), hylafax-config(5) 💜

and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, she ate 💅✨

okay so final sign-off, fr fr: this one's from the System Manager's Manual, dated October 3, 1995, and it's CHOPTEST(8). periodt. 🎀🦋💖