Re: [hylafax-users] Page length and page chop

[Adam Fox <afox@gribbles.com.au>]

Lee Howard wrote:

> On 2002.03.18 17:03 Adam Fox wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having some trouble with the page length of documents that we 
>> send. Nearly all of the faxes that we send are text documents that 
>> are 30 lines long with a form feed (^L) character seperating each 
>> page. What we want to happen is when hylafax gets to a ^L character, 
>> we want the page to be chopped so paper isn't wasted.
>
>
> Does textfmt (ascii -> ps) not break the pages on ^L instances? 

Yes it does break the pages, but there is still trailing whitespace 
afterwards. I think the problem is in the ps2fax command where 
ghostscript is used to convert the postscript file generated by textfmt 
to a tiff file. From what I can see, ghostscript only supports certain 
page sizes.

An ascii 2 tiff converter might get around this problem but I can't find 
one. Does anyone know of one?

If I'm able to somehow delete any trailing whitespace from the tiff file 
after ps2fax has converted it but before hylafax sends it then this 
might fix it also, but I've got no idea of how to do this.

Thanks for any help,

Adam.



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