Re: [hylafax-users] degraded output

[Ole Kaas <obk@xxxxxx>]

Den 22/03/2010 kl. 05.46 skrev Lee Howard:

> Ole Kaas wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've upgraded to hylafax+ 5.4.1 and there seems to be some changes in building the fax image. Some changes have been made to ps2fax and common.functions, where the earlier behaviour was to always use tiffg3. Now it seems that tiff24nc is selected as "device" (for color output?).  It seems that tiff24nc produces slightly poorer output - which our users have noticed. Is there a way to enforce the old behavior , apart from hacking the scripts, so that the setting will survive upgrades? Attached small example of differences.
> 
> Monochrome faxes are still produced with tiffg3.  What, exactly, are you doing?  And what other changes were made in your upgrade to 5.4.1?


The job is received through our mail2fax script. after preparation the mail is submitted to hylafax like this: 

/usr/bin/faxmail $FAXMAILOPT -T -f Helvetica-Bold | /usr/bin/sendfax \
   -D \
   -i "$TAG" \
   -s a4 \
   -f "$RETURN" \
   -o "$LOGIN" \
   -n -d "$DST"


Other changes... well.. apart from moving til sparkling new hardware, upgrading from Sarge (i386) to Lenny (amd64) and using Sangoma (using iaxmodem/dahdi/asterisk) instead of Diva Server - no changes at all ;)

I've build 5.3.0, 5.4.0, and 5.4.1 debian packages on the server and I'm pretty much sure I did a downgrade to test - but at time of writing this I'm a bit in doubt. I could schedule a downgrade or maybe just put the couple of 5.3.0 scripts in place for a quick test. Or maybe hack the 5.4.1 script to ignore tiff24nc.

I don't think any of our users are using colorfax (or are aware that it is even possible), so maybe make it optional to produce color output?

/Ole

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