Re: [hylafax-users] pdf poor quality images when i send.

["Giulio Orsero" <giulioo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:14 PM, <l.mannucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi David,
how i can modify the quality of pdf to HylaFax? there is a file for modify
the quality? The Board is DIVA ISDN 4BRI, if you want i can send to you the

>> I will use avantfax web for convert .pdf and send directly to hylafax.
The poor quality it's only when i send trught avantfax to a my fax
machine
>> I hope avantfax use ghotscript driver to covert.
>> It's possibile to change the quality on the avantfax or hylafax?

If you send the same PDF from the command line

$ sendfax .......

is the quality the same (bad)?

If so, then the problem is in the dithering done through ghostscript during the conversion PDF.

In my HylaFAX install I can read this in

/var/spool/hylafax/bin/common-functions

 #

    # Ghostscript's default dithering with the fax drivers is

    # usually unsatisfactory.  So we have an option to process

    # the image through libtiff's Floyd-Steinberg dithering.

    # This will be a bit more costly on CPU and image preparation

    # time... enable it cautiously.

    #

    # An alternative to libtiff Floyd-Steinberg dithering would

    # be to use a threshold array based stochastic mask within

    # Ghostscript.  However, this alternative may perform less

    # than ideally on unmodified Ghostscript versions prior to 8.62.

    # See: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689633

    #

    DITHERING=default

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