Re: [hylafax-users] Problems with hylafax, libtiff 3.6.1-12 and tiffs which have G3 options set

[Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > We started having problems with some windows clients sending just
> > white faxes. Tracked it down to tiff G3 options are set on the ones
> > which do not transmit correctly, while the tiffs with G4 options do.
> > The client is Hylafsp and most are Windows XP. The tiff on the fax
> > server itself is ok, although tiff2pdf complains about field 292.
> > >
> > > Anyone have a hint how to fix this? This only seems to have started
> > to happen.
> >
> > Please review:
> >
> > http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2010-04/msg00152.php
> >
> > -Darren
> >
> 
> Hylafsp is already sending the tif, no ghostscript involved that I can
> see. Some Windows XP machines are sending the tiff with G3 options set,
> some with G4. Also nothing has changed on this server since Hylafax
> 4.4.4 was released.

Ok, the problem was ... drum roll ... M$ broken shitty software. If you let the M$
fax software include a cover page, it spits out the broken tiff.

Ulf.


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