Re: [hylafax-users] sendfax fails to send *.ps files generated by postscript printer driver

[Aaron Phoenix <aaronphoenix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is the simple way from Lee Howard:

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Don't use the HP "Postscript" printer drivers to generate valid Postscript for use with anything other than HP's printers. (Because they throw in stuff that is proprietary into the data.) I tend to use the Apple printer drivers.
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It works!

Thanks you all.


A J Stiles wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Sep 2007, Aaron Phoenix wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've set up hylafax-4.3.2 under FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE + Samba, with an
>> external serial modem. It works well in receiving faxes, but fails to
>> send *.ps files from the Windows XP client - WHFC. These *.ps files are
>> generated by printer HP LaserJet 5/5M PostScript.
>>
>> My debug steps:
>>
>> 1) print attachment "test.eml" to file "test.ps" via printer under
>> Windows XP.
>>
>> 2) copy "test.eml" and "test.ps" to the FreeBSD box.
>>
>> 3) run `sendfax -n -d 8172 test.eml`, OK, the fax machine got the
>> facsimile.
>>
>> 4) run `sendfax -n -d 8172 test.ps`, got error message - "Can not
>> determine file type".
>>
>> 5) run `ps2ps test.ps test.ps2` and got "test.ps2".
>>
>> 6) run `sendfax -n -d 8172 test.ps2`, OK.
>>
>> I didn't modify "/usr/local/lib/fax/typerules".
>>
>> Who can tell the reason, and how to fix it? Any advices are appreciated.
>>
>> - Aaron
>>     
>
>
> Looking at the files, "test.ps" appears to have had some crap shoved onto the 
> beginning -- possibly by the client software, who knows?
>
> Try arranging it so that your Windows-generated PostScript files get piped 
> through this little Perl script -- it's a simple filter that strips off 
> anything before a line beginning with a percent sign.  Every 
> application-generated PostScript file should start with a comment such 
> as "%!PS-Adobe-3.0", which indicates the PostScript level to which the file 
> conforms.  No harm will be done to files without any extraneous bytes on the 
> beginning.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> my $seen_percent = 0;
> while ($_ = <>) {
>     $seen_percent |= /^\s*%/;
>     print if $seen_percent;
> };
> exit;
>
> (The above code is hereby released to the Public Domain -- AJS.)
>
>   


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