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

[Enrique Arredondo <henry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   
I found the solution,  I changed typerules to use enscript for SCO 
instead of textfmt and voila! I'm getting now the right conversion to 
PS, seems that Metrics on SCO's Ghostscript is not calculating correctly 
for a linux hylafax server.


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