Re: [hylafax-users] Bug in faxmail?

[Igor Neves <igor@xxxxxxxx>]

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> * Igor Neves <igor@xxxxxxxx> [071113 13:39]:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup hylafax typerules file, to parse some more files.
>>
>> But i think this is not working as it should, whatever I put in the
>> column 'result' should say what kind of output the rule will have.
>>
>> Ok, so according to the man page
>> (http://www.hylafax.org/content/Man_Pages_4.4.2) in this simple rule:
>>
>> #offset datatype        match           result  rule
>> 0       string          %!              ps
>>
>> It should output strings as postscript, internally faxmail will output
>> the postscript correctly.
>>
>> What happens it's, when i change the result to tiff, it should output
>> one tiff, and pdf should output one pdf, but it's not, it always outputs
>> postscript output, don't know why.
>>     
>
> I'm not quite sure I understand what your describing.
>
> Are you saying that if you have a line:
> 	#ofset	datatype match	result	rule
> 	0	string	 #!		tiff
>
> you expect typerules (and thus faxmail/sendfax) to automatically submit
> a TIFF file?  Haven't you forgotten to put the "rule" to convert the
> file to the tiff?
>   

According to the man page, in version 4.4.x of hylafax, internally it
knows how to handle tiff, ps, and pdf files, but it can only output
postscript, it's that it?

I think i was making some confusion.
> Can you show us the rule you have in typerules, the file, and the output
> of sendfax -v showing the typefules matching/handling?
>
>   
>> This only happen when we use internal faxmail generation, if i use
>> another external application, like open office to parse the ODT files
>> and set the result to 'pdf' or 'ps', this does not happen.
>>     
>
> What do you mean by "internal faxmail generation?   faxmail only knows
> how to generate postscript, and it only does that for the text
> header/body parts of emails.
>
> a.
>
>   


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