Re: Help - error converting to fax format

[David Smith <david@bcm.tmc.edu>]

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mark Lehrer wrote:

> 
> Could someone give me a quick hint on what to check here?  This was
> emailed to me by the fax daemon, but it makes no sense to me (yet 8^)
> 
> Thanks!!!  Text follows:
> 
> 
> Your facsimile job to 12165554308 was not sent because document conversion
> to facsimile failed.  The output from the converter program was:

The fax failed, the converter program it called barfed.
 
> Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> Operand stack:
>    Helvetica-Bold   15364   --nostringval--   Helvetica-Bold   NimbusSanL-Bold  
>  Helvetica-Bold   NimbusSanL-Bold
> Execution stack:
> ...

This looks like the stuff I have seen when an attachment wasn't correctly 
identified and it tried to wrap the test (body) part and then sent 
mangled postscript to ghostview/dps.

here's what I have seen:

header

body

attachment header 
(application/postscript, some text encoding, not b64/uuencoding)

postscript attachemnt (possable ps print to file with the [ctrl]-m)

in some cases it seems to partally encode the body but not end the PS 
document at which point it sees another header and breaks.

All the ones I have seen have been from PCs and it may be the [ctrl]-m 
causing problems.

 

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