Re: flexfax: found the error, but no solution

[Holger Raschke <Holger.Raschke@FernUni-Hagen.de>]

Hi Karl,
it looks to me as if you have a "broken tiff viewer" problem.
I had the same problem on my windows clients.
Supposing that you want to view your faxes with microsoft windows, have
a look at Wang (now Eastman) Imaging, as bundled with many versions of
'95 and NT 4,
and available at no extra charge from Microsoft's web site.

It doesn't seem to like 2D coded faxes, so you may have to run tiffcp,
or enable copy quality checking in Hylafax, and configure it for 1D 
output.

For me it works fine.
Hope this helps.
Holger

Karl wrote:
> 
> i now found out why my received faxes in low-resolution are pressed to 50% of
> the page. the log:
> 
> --- snip ---
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants page width 1728 pixels in 215 mm
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants unlimited page length
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants 3.85 line/mm
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants 1-D MR
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: --> [7:CONNECT]
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: RECV: begin page
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: RECV: send trigger 022
> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: <-- data [1]
> *** Sep 22 22:11:26.88: [  315]: RECV: 1139 total lines, 0 bad lines, 0
> consecutive bad lines   <<<===== received 1139 lines
> *** Sep 22 22:11:26.88: [  315]: --> [17:+FPTS: 1,2219,0,0] <<<<<=====  modem
> reports 2219
> Sep 22 22:11:28.29: [  315]: --> [7:+FET: 2]
> Sep 22 22:11:28.29: [  315]: RECV recv EOP (no more pages or documents)
> Sep 22 22:11:28.29: [  315]: --> [2:OK]
> Sep 22 22:11:28.31: [  315]: RECV send MCF (message confirmation)
> Sep 22 22:11:28.31: [  315]: RECV FAX (00000048): from <UNSPECIFIED>, page 1 in
> 1:22, INF, 3.85 line/mm, 1-D MR
> Sep 22 22:11:28.33: [  315]: RECV FAX (00000048): recvq/fax00032.tif from
> <UNSPECIFIED>, route to <u
> --- snip ---
> 
> in high resolution i get 2290 lines received and this is why it looks fine.
> this happens on both modems the same way. one is a best-data 14400 with
> rockwell chipset and one is a us-robotics.
> 
> does somebody know how to patch hylafax to take the received lines for
> calculating the tiff insted of the FPTS value? i am running 4.0pl2 under
> freebsd 3.2 on both machines. except that low-resolution receiving thing i
> would be ready for going on the production machines.
> 
> many thanks,
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Karl M. Joch   STOC#806   Pan 96 Red
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