Re: [hylafax-users] Weird tiffcp conversion failure problem

[Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>]

On 2003.08.28 07:17 Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> I've got a HylaFAX 4.1.7 server here, using a Multitech 
> MT5634ZBA-V92-USB modem, which is a Class 2.1 FAX modem. Incoming 
> FAXes work great, are emailed to the appropriate user and the user is 
> happy :-)
> 
> In an attempt to get outgoing FAXing working, I installed the 0.4 
> version of the HylaFAX FAX Service Provider for Windows on a Windows 
> 2000 machine. Once I got the authentication stuff in hosts.hfaxd 
> straightened out, I was able to get FAXes into the queue for sending.
> 
> However, I ran into two problems, somewhat related in that if the 
> first problem is solved the second will go away as well:
> 
> 1) HylaFAX wants to convert the outbound FAX using tiffcp because it 
> thinks "the destination doesn't support 2D MMR". However, we receive 
> FAXes in 2D MMR with this modem all the time, why can't we give it 2D 
> MMR for sending?

Not all receivers will support MMR.  BUT, you can use RTFCC.  Put 
"Class2RTFCC:  yes" in your config file.

> 2) The tiffcp conversion fails with an error code of 9. I did a quick 
> search of the archive for this problem, found only one other mention 
> of it and no solution was posted... I'm using tiffcp from 
> libtiff-v.3.5.7. If I run the tiffcp command manually the only 
> message I get is warning about an unknown tag, but according to the 
> archives this warning is ignored (-i argument to tiffcp) so shouldn't 
> be the cause of a non-zero result code. When run manually, tiffcp 
> does successfully create the new format TIFF, it just returns a 
> non-zero result code.

http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=341

Lee.

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