Re: [hylafax-users] Some faxes received at recipient blank

[Daren Russell <darenr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/04/10 13:23, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
>   
>>>       +    -dMaxStripSize=0 \
>>>       
>   
>>> This should work on both versions of GS, and make the new version of GS
>>> write a single unlimtied strip that will work.  I thouls eliminate the
>>> need for Use2D, or the tiffcp hack...
>>>       
>   
>> Downgrading has worked for now, so it is currently off of my "priority"
>> list!  When I have sorted out some other issues with a new server, I
>> shall be going back to this and will give this a try when re-updating
>> ghostscript (probably early next week).
>>     
> OK, please do try it.  Just to give you more background.  Ghostscript
> traditionally had that MaxStripSize set to 0.  It was changed in 8.71
> (I think) to 8192.   And as soon as 8.71 was released, and they
> realized they broke everything for everybody, they changed it.  They
> didn't change it to 0 (unlimited), but to 1Million (or something big
> like that).
>
> So, ghostscript 8.71 is affected.  Newer GS (already in fedora
> repositories) bumps this up to a value large enough to hold a page if
> tiff data.  And previous to 8.71 it was unlimitted.  So by next week,
> your ports might have it fixed already and you not even need
> -dMaxStripSize....
>
> But we want to make sure that -dMaxStripSize=0 works on "all"
> ghostscripts, so if you could test that on your curren tone (and when
> upgraded), I Still would appreciate it.
>
> a.
>
>   
This morning I updated ghostscript again to 8.71, and added the
-dMaxStripSize option to pdf2fax and ps2fax.  We haven't used the fax
much today, but the two that went this afternoon (which always seemed to
fail before) seem to have gone through ok, so it appears this small
change has fixed the issue with the change.

Thanks again
Daren


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