Re: flexfax: Error Sending Fax with WHFC and OLE

[Ulrich Eckhardt <Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de>]

Mike Wilhelm wrote:
> 
> >
> >Mike Wilhelm wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm getting the following error sending a fax using the WHFC client and
> > > VBA/OLE on a Windows 98 SE machine:
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Your facsimile job to xxx-xxx-xxxx was not sent because document conversion
> > > to facsimile failed. The output from the converter program was:
> > >
> > > Could not reopen converted document to verify format
> > >
> > > Check any PostScript documents for non-standard fonts and invalid
> > constructs.
> > > ---
> > >
> > > I'm using version 1.0.5 of WHFC and the generic Adobe PS printer driver
> > > version 4.3.1 on the client.
> > >
> > > I'm using version 4.0pl2 of HylaFAX, version 6.2 of SuSE Linux, and
> > > Ghostscript 5.10 on the server.
> > >
> > > Faxes are successful if I "manually" print to the HylaFAX printer I've
> > > defined.  The error only occurs if I use the VBA macro to print to the
> > > HylaFAX printer, creating a file, and sending to HylaFAX server using the
> > > SendFax command.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help,
> > >
> > > Mike Wilhelm
> > > mikeybob@oz.net
> >
> >Be sure your PostScript printer name is HylaFAX and the printername is
> >in quotation marks in the macro.
> >
> >
> >Keith
> 
> I've verified both the printer name and quotation marks, all seems
> well.  Documents are reaching the fax server, so I'm sure the macro is
> sending the fax to the correct place.
> 
> I've done more testing and come up with a few more facts.  It appears that
> HylaFAX is receiving an incomplete document, which is what is causing the
> conversion failure.
> 
> I'm using the Visual Basic example found on the WHFC web page.  This macro
> can be divided into three sections: (1) the current document is printed to
> a file, (2) the sendfax function is used to ship the file to the HylaFAX
> server, and then (3) a message box is displayed.  If I view the file on the
> client machine (c:\windows\temp\fax.ps on my machine) BEFORE clicking "OK"
> in the message box I see the incomplete document, which is identical to the
> file that shows up in the docq directory on the HylaFAX server.  After I
> click "OK" I can then view the c:\windows\temp\fax.ps file and it contains
> the complete document, similar to what I see on the server in the docq
> directory for successful faxes (when I "manually print" to the HylaFAX
> printer).
> 
> It seems that the file created by the application.printout method is not
> complete until after the macro completes.  Is there anyway to cause the
> file to be completely generated before the sendfax function is used to send
> the file to the server ???
> 
> Thanks again,

Hi,

there is a nice "feature" in Windows, that even when a file is closed
and you access this file immediately from an other application you got
only
a partial file.

Solution :
Wait a second or write the temp file to a samba share.

Uli
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