Re: [hylafax-users] Auto Printing Only Prints First Page of Fax

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

With tiff2ps, -2 generates level II postscript instead of level I.

If you had a big enough fax, level2 would probably fail then too.

Strange that it turns out grey though in level2.

Have you tried to see the postscript it produces, and it looks fine in
postscript viewers?

* Frank Griffith <glassdude45@xxxxxxxxx> [031201 12:16]:
> Turns out that at least for now it was a limit of the file size allowed by lpr. 
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> I could use this command:
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>    tiff2ps -a2 $FILE | lpr
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> and it will work but it prints a copy with a gray tint all over the whole page. The fax was readable but this gray background was ugly and used more toner than neccessary. When I ran this command from the command line
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>    tiff2ps -a fax00035.tif | lpr
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> it would only print one page but then echo the error message:
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>    copy file too large
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> The /var partition on my machine is 5GB so I knew it had to be something else. A quick yahoo search of that error message came up with the fix. Turns out I need
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>     :mx#0:\
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> added to the /etc/printcap file
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> That at least fixed the problem from the command line. Now to see if it works once a multi-page fax is received. Strange how the -a2 switch did not have this problem but the the -a switch did.
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> Chris Parsons <chrisp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I found adding the option p and 1 -pa1 solved most of my little hick-ups
> that I had with printing faxes. Maybe try this?
> 
> 
> 
> Chris
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Frank Griffith
> Sent: Monday, 1 December 2003 1:56 AM
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> Subject: [hylafax-users] Auto Printing Only Prints First Page of Fax
> 
> 
> I'm using the following line in my FaxDispatch file:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/tiff2ps -a $FILE | lpr
> 
> This works but it only prints out the first page of the fax. In a multi-page
> fax. When I check the fax with a tiff-viewer, all the pages. I thought the
> -a switch was what told tiff2ps to print all the pages. Can anyone shed some
> light here?

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