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Re: Sendfax corrupt PS for multiple pages



On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu wrote:

> Try using "ps2fax" to convert the postscript directly, then use
> "fax2ps" to turn it back into postscript and see what you get. Or use
> "viewfax" from ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/contrib/ to examine it, and
> "ghostview" from ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ to examine the original
> and resulting Postscript.
> 

I did as you suggest. Both the postscript and the tiff version look
basically the same. Here's a meagre representation with XXX for page 1 and
YYY for page 2.



XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
                YYYYYYYYYYYYYY
                YYYYYYYYYYYYYY 
                YYYYYYYYYYYYYY
                YYYYYYYYYYYYYY

                   ^
                   | This is about where the page is cut off in landscape.

The part where the problem occurs is between the two pages - or rather
where the pagebreak is mean't to be. This is signified in the original
ascii code as a (^L) or hex 0x0c. I am now convinced that TEXTFMT does not
like this page break symbol. Is there another way to get textfmt to break
pages in designated spots - other than padding out with blank lines ??
Maybe another symbol is required to signify a page break?

Otherwise is there another utility other than textfmt that would work
properly?

Any help on this one greatly appreciated...

Catch Ya,
Dave.
David Batterham
Energy Brix Australia



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