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

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2006.01.27 00:53 schrieb(en) Santos:
> Initially i was using the material here on this page to send pdf:  
> http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/misc/faxmail-mimeconverters.php

Hello Santos,

on this page the filter.pl script is used with the output of
/usr/bin/gs ... -sDEVICE=pswrite ...
With this output device Ghostscript creates (simpler) PostScript from  
the input PostScript or PDF document.
In this case it may be OK to rely on the "showpage" operators in the  
document because we know it's created by Ghostscript/pswrite. (There is  
a little chance that a document containing "showpage" in it's text may  
be processed wrong.)

> > > ############## /usr/local/faxscripts/application/pdf #!/bin/bash
> > > /bin/echo " "
> > > /bin/echo "showpage"
> > >
> > > /var/spool/hylafax/bin/pdf2fax $1 | /usr/local/faxscripts/filter.pl

> 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.

I think this combination of pdf2fax with filter.pl is definitely wrong.
filter.pl expects to process PostScript data, not TIFF (fax) data.

Sorry, I cannot help you further here.
I don't use faxmail and I don't know what data format the next  
processing step expects to find as output of the mime conversion script.


Bodo

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