Re: [hylafax-users] ascii to ps convertion issue

[Enrique Arredondo <henry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> * In reply to <48D2C520.1050501@xxxxxxxxx> Enrique Arredondo said:
>   
> > Hi,
> >     
>
> Hi,  I'm not sure what this had to do with the previous message you
> replied to, but...
>
>   
I'm confused. Can you email me that previous message ?
> > I'm having an issue with the way sendfax converts ASCII to PS on 
> > different OS's, and I can't figure it out, I have a linux server running 
> > hylafax and if I send a fax within linux, I get a clean fax, so then I 
> > installed hylafax for SCO on another server so that I can use send faxes 
> > using sco's sendfax as a client through the linux server, the issue is 
> > that when I ran sendfax on SCO box, the ps is coming out different than 
> > the one generated by linux (when I compare the same ascii file).
> >     
>
> The "textfmt" tool (sendfax uses this to convert ASCI -> PS) uses system
> ghostscript fonts.
>
> If you use sendfax -v, you can see how textfmt is run by sendfax.  You
> should see something like:
> 	rule: offset 0 ascii = -- success (result postscript, rule "textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i")
> 	CONVERT "textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold     -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s default >'/tmp//sndfaxQvIHCb' <'/tmp//sndfaxlPhLfK'"
>
> With that, you'll be abel tos ee the exact textfmt invocation used, and
> from that you can start chasing down what's different between the 2
> systems.  Some of the things different could be:
>
> 1) Compile options (packages often vary them)
> 2) page sizes
> 3) typerule 
> 4) Fonts available
>
> etc.
>
>
>
>   
Well I don't see any differences, so I guess it's the ghostscript 
version, because I tried it on SCO OSR6 and OSR507 with their respective 
hylafax installations and they both have the same result when it uses 
the LINUX hylafax server.

LINUX server ....>
rule: offset 0 ascii = -- success (result postscript, rule "%F/textfmt 
-B -f Courier-Bold       -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i")
CONVERT "/usr/local/sbin/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold     -Ml=0.4in -p 11 
-s default >'/tmp//sndfaxgIf0YJ' <'/tmp//sndfaxANgK9s'"

SCO Server.... >
rule: offset 0 ascii = -- success (result postscript, rule "%F/textfmt 
-B -f Courier-Bold       -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i")
CONVERT "/usr/local/sbin/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold     -Ml=0.4in -p 11 
-s default > '/tmp/sndfaxb003B5' < '/tmp/sndfaxa003B5'"

I'm wondering if somecan can run this command from their SCO box to my 
linux server, ( I need your IP address so I can Add on to my hosts.hyld 
file) and
let me know if you're getting the same output that I'm getting:

      run this command please  :

      cal 2008 | sendfax -m -n -v -h outnow@xxxxxxxxxxx -d 91{ur fax 
machine}  ( I need your IP address so I can Add on to my hosts.hyld file 
so it let's you fax)


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