Re: [hylafax-users] Problems faxing a landscape PDF; Used pdftk to rotate the document

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shashidhar Rampally wrote:
> > Here is the command to test:
> >
> > cat rotated.pdf | gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER=true
> > -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dFIXEDMEDIA -dBATCH -r203.29x98
> > -sOutputFile=rotated.tif -
> >
> > Then take a look at the rotated.tif image.
> >
> > I get variable results depending on the Ghostscript version and whether
> > or not I use -dFIXEDMEDIA (or if I remove it from the command).  What do
> > you get?
> >
> >     
>
> Thanks for the advice Lee. Sorry for the late reply. I was out of town
> and did not check my email.
>
> I have tried your command and you are RIGHT.
>
> I have Ghostscript version 8.15.2 installed on this machine. If I
> execute the command as is, I am getting the same result as the fax.
> However, if I remove -dFIXEDMEDIA from the command, the tif isn't
> getting truncated!!
>
> How do I incorporate this into hylafax? Should I rotate the document
> using PDFTK, then generate the TIF and then send the TIF using
> sendfax? Or is there a simpler way?

First off, you need to be submitting the rotated PDF (submit portrait 
only) to HylaFAX.

Secondly, in /var/spool/hylafax/etc/FaxModify put:

FIXEDWIDTH=""

or, alternatively:

FIXEDWIDTH=-dPDFFitPage

Then try again.

Thanks,

Lee.


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