Re: flexfax: postscript attachments show up at 5% size

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Super-User wrote:

> hi, i'm playing with attaching postscript files and sending them through
> hylafax.  when i do this, the header and body of the email come through
> just fine, then i see some tiny thumbnail of the image that is supposed to
> be the postscript page, in the bottom left corner of the first page.
> i've tried saving the mail (with ps attachment) and running it through
> faxmail (faxmail < ~/mail/sent-mail > output.ps) then using ghostscript or
> solaris's pageview to view the output.  the postscript file i attached
> appears in the bottom left corner, very very small (words become 1 or 2
> pixels high).

Try using ps2fax, and look at the tiffg3 file generated with viewfax
on UNIX systems (from ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/contrib/).

> i've played around with editing output.ps, and i see a line
> ".05 dup scale".  changing the .05 to .9 or 1 makes the attached
> postscript file full page, and bumps the email header off.
> changing it to 0.52 shows that it moves the header up, and gets cut in
> half.

I suspect that your Postscript files are not compatible with the
ghostscript conversion. Take a look at the ps2fax script, and take
a look at your version of ghostscript or dps used to convert the
document.

> also on examining the output i see two "showpage" and "end restore", this
> results in an extra empty page.  (this comes up when there's an
> attachment)..  any easy way to disable this?

How are you generating the Postscript?

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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