Re: [hylafax-users] hylafax-6.0.4/avantfax-3.2.2 - sending blank pages & reporting successful transmission

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/24/2010 08:34 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> David, you using ghostscript 8.71 on that server?  That's a known bug,
> fixed in recent releases.  Ghostscript 8.71 changed the default
> "strip" size of MMR tiff, which affects what hylafax expects...
> faxsend needs a "single" strip of image data to send, and with a small
> strip size, gs makes multi-strip images, which come out as blank
> pages.
> 
> Workarounds (any will work):
> - edit $SPOOL/bin/{ps,pdf}2fax.gs, add -dMaxStripSize=0 to the GS
> call, to make gs produce single-strip images
> - edit $SPOOL/etc/config set Use2D:No to make faxq not prepare MMR images
> 
> Or, upgrade ;-)
> 

Aidan,

	Looks like you nailed it again :-)

18:52 nirvana:~> pacman -Q ghostscript
ghostscript 8.71-3

I'll go see if I can find a newer version for Arch, and if not I'll try the
work-arounds and report back. Thank you Aidan.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com


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