Re: [hylafax-users] Unknown document type when sending pdf via email

[Santos <sansancasd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bodo Meissner wrote:
> On 2006.01.25 18:56, Santos wrote:
> > I'm using the following scripts that i found on the mailing list, and 
> > known to work:
> >
> > #########/usr/local/faxscripts/filter.pl
> [...]
>
> Why do you need this script?
> I think it's a bit fragile because it only looks for the string 
> "showpage" without context.
> It could catch the word "showpage where it is not a PostScript 
> operator or it could delete the operator "showpage" in a procedure 
> definition leaving a broken procedure.
> In PostScript you can define a procedure like this
> /SP { showpage } def
> and use the procedure name (SP) instead of showpage.

Initially i was using the material here on this page to send pdf: 
http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/misc/faxmail-mimeconverters.php But 
it didn't work, as it sent blank pdf pages after the first one. And i 
tried with a 2 page and a 6 six page pdf. Then i found  other scripts 
that supported more formats, 
http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2002-05/msg00069.php and now i got the 
error i posted here with those scripts. Why is it so hard to send pdf 
(and other formats) to faxmail when sendfax supports it ok?...

> > ############## /usr/local/faxscripts/application/pdf 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > /bin/echo " "
> > /bin/echo "showpage"
> >
> > /var/spool/hylafax/bin/pdf2fax $1 | /usr/local/faxscripts/filter.pl
>
> I don't understand this command.
> pdf2fax should create a fax image document while the filter script 
> seems to process PostScript code.

Ah yes, pdf2fax is there as it is the third tool i tried to generate a 
fax image. Tried some before, all with the same result.

> > And here is the resulot of  dd 
> > if=/var/spool/hylafax/docq/doc105.ps.85  bs=1 count=40 | od -bc :
> >
> > 40+0 records in
> > 40+0 records out
> > 0000000 045 041 120 123 055 101 144 157 142 145 055 063 056 060 012 045
> >          %   !   P   S   -   A   d   o   b   e   -   3   .   0  \n   %
> > 0000020 045 103 162 145 141 164 157 162 072 040 110 171 154 141 106 101
> >          %   C   r   e   a   t   o   r   :       H   y   l   a   F   A
> > 0000040 130 040 124 145 170 164 106 157
> >          X       T   e   x   t   F   o
> > 0000050
>
> I think the empty line followed by the word "showpage" makes Hylafax 
> think it's a text file (and not PostScript) but this is followed by 
> binary Tiff image data. This is converted to PostScript and probably 
> is bad postScript code because the text to PostScript converter does 
> not handle binary data.
I don't understand, these scripts worked for others, why they work 
here?... I don't think hylafax has changed that much since those scripts 
were created.

Thanks for the help!


Santos


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