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

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The reason for all of the blank space at the top is because the 
-dPDFFitPage tells Ghostscript to take the image, which is apparently 
thinks is landscape still, and to fit it onto a portrait letter or 
A4-sized page.  So inevitably there's going to be a lot of whitespace at 
the top.  As long as you're okay with the "shrinking" that will occur 
there, then you should be fine if the whitespace is also tolerable.

The problem with the "rotated" PDF going from portrait back to landscape 
orientation is in Ghostscript somewhere.  If you can supply me with a 
non-confidential copy of the "rotated.pdf" (portrait orientation) then I 
can file that onto bugs.ghostscript.com with some technical information 
that they'll need to reproduce the problem... and then hopefully they'll 
get it fixed in a future release.  (These days they tend to be rather 
quick.)

Thanks,

Lee.


Shashidhar Rampally wrote:
> I have gs version 8.15.2
>
> I have created a FaxModify file and put FIXEDWIDTH=-dPDFFitPage in it.
> Now when I fax it, it doesn't cut anything off but puts everything at
> the bottom of the page leaving top half of the page blank. Works for
> us for now until there is an alternative solution.
>
> Thanks for your advice. You are doing a great service.
>
> Regards,
> Shashi
>
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2008 2:09 PM, Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > 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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