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

[Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@xxxxxxx>]

Enrique Arredondo typed (on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:27:34AM -0700):
>
>
> 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)

I just sent 'cal 2008' from a client's OSR 6.0.0 machine via Hylafax to
my own 6.0.0 machine.  Looks perfect.

I'll send via your server after you tell me you've cleared my IP.


-- 
JP


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