Re: flexfax: printing long pages, and errors on sender's fax machine

[Gevaerts Frank <fg@village.uunet.be>]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, David Woolley wrote:
> > 
> > How can I print long faxes, with pages of 50 cm or longer ? (Unlimited
> > Page Length) ? If I send them to the printer with fax2ps, I only get the
> > last part of the page. I use Linux with hylafax version 4.x (don't know
> > which one exactly), and ghostscript.
> 
> You must specify the page size to ghostscript (I'm not sure if you can set
> arbitrary sizes, or whether you can do this within the postscript file).
> Postscript prints with an origin at the bottom left, so, if you send
> a document that is longer than the page, you will lose the top of the
> document.  N.B. postscript interpreters always image the whole page; they
> can't output top to bottom as the data arrives - it may well not arrive in
> that sequence.
> 
> If you don't have a printer that can print 50cm pages in one go, you will
> need to add postscript translate instructions to the postscript file, to
> move the image relative to the page, or convert the fax to pbm and use the
> netpbm tools to extract two A4 sized images.

OK, I'll try that
> 
> Note most faxes are declared as unlimited length.
> 

> Also, before asking for support, make sure that you know the exact version
> numbers (including ghostscript in this case), and for this question, the
> type of printer used. 

ghostscript 2.6.2
hylafax 4.0.1
HP LaserJet IIP

> Also, you appear to have forced the envelope sender to an invalid domain
> name.
> 
> > X-Authentication-Warning: turing.frank.gevaerts: fg owned process doing -bs
> > X-Sender: fg@turing.frank.gevaerts
> 
> (I've assumed that sgi have moved Sender to X-Sender, rather than overwriting
> the one you put in.   The host name certainly looks misconfigured.)
> 
I'll have a look at my sendmail config. That's my internal LAN domain name
you're seeing. 

Thanks

Frank