Re: [hylafax-users] tiff2pdf not working

[Joseph Olatt <joji@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:13:39PM -0700, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:14:42PM +0200, Marco Peterseil wrote:
> > hello
> > I'm currently working with debian etch and hylafax 4.3.1.
> > Receiving and sending faxes works fine.
> > The problem is that the automatic converting of the standard tiff files 
> > into pdf isn't working.
> > I've already tried following things:
> > -- making the entry FILETYPE=pdf in etc/FaxDispatch
> > -- changed the directive FILETYPE=ps into FILETYPE=pdf manually in 
> > bin/faxrcvd
> > -- also exchanged the $TIFF2PDF at bin/faxrcvd into the absolute paths
> > -- no errors\infos in the syslog
> > 
> > Nothing worked.
> > Hopefully someone can help me ?!?!
> 
> 
> I have tiff2pdf working. I did the following to make it work:
> 
> In bin/faxrcvd, I made the following changes:
> 1) TIFF2PDF looks like:
> TIFF2PDF=bin/tiff2pdf
> 
> 2) FILETYPE looks like:
> FILETYPE=pdf
> 
> 3) Added the following:
> if [ -f $FILE ]
> then
>     $TIFF2PDF -o ${FILE}.pdf $FILE
> fi

Forgot to mention that step 3) actually replaces the bigger if block. I
actually convert the tiff file to pdf and move the pdf to a separate
directory.


> The above may or may not work for you. Give it a shot if you like.
> I'm running hylafax-4.3.0 on FreeBSD.
> 
> 
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