Re: flexfax: Document page width problem...

[Darrell Berry <darrellb@hhcl.com>]

i think the FAQ needs to be updated on this--from memory it sez 'upgrade
to a new gs supporting setpagedevice', but doesn't include the mods to
ps2fax

cheers

Alan Sparks wrote:
> 
> What client are you using to submit the document?
> 
> This has *got* to get on the FAQ... the answer I include below contains a
> suggestion that will fix the problem at the server.  As far as I know, you
> can't just tell HylaFAX to "send it anyway."
> 
> =====
> That is stupid Windows producing a Postscript output just a little too big.
> And, there is nothing I've ever seen (including using different printer
> drivers) that really helps.
> 
> Something that DOES help, and helps definitively:
> Go into the server's spool/bin/fax2ps script, and:
> * Make sure the pagewidth variable is set to 1728; and
> * Make the last line of the script look something like:
> $CAT $fil | $PS -q \
>     -sDEVICE=$device \
>     -dNOPAUSE \
>     -dSAFER=true \
>     -sPAPERSIZE=$paper \
>     -dFIXEDMEDIA \
>     -r204x$vres \
>     "-sOutputFile=$out" \
>     -
> 
> In my case, that was an addition of the -dFIXEDMEDIA parameter... versions
> of gs at least from 4.x on I think supports this.  This will make
> ghostscript rescale the image on the fly to the right size.
> 
> Give that a try.  Works well here.
> -Alan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: darrellb <darrellb@hhcl.com>
> To: flexfax@sgi.com <flexfax@sgi.com>; darrellb@hhcl.com <darrellb@hhcl.com>
> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 1:06 PM
> Subject: flexfax: page width?
> 
> >we've just installed hylafax 4.07 RPM on RedHat 5.1...works a treat,
> >howefer sending A4 gets a refusal with the error
> >
> >Client does not support document page width, max remote page width 1728
> >pixels, image width 1734 pixels
> >
> >This is printing from WIndows NT using the whfc client...
> >
> >is there a switch somewhere to make it just crop and/or send anyway--we
> >can live without 4 pixels!
> >
> >currently we have to send 'letter' size rather than A4, which is a
> >serious issue if we are to go ahead and use this in a production
> >environment, as all out standard look & feel is A4
> >
> >
> >thanks for any help!
> >
> >- darrell
> 
> =====
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul S. Russell <paulr@cmysys.com>
> To: flexfax@sgi.com <flexfax@sgi.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 12:34 AM
> Subject: flexfax: Document page width problem...
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> (Running HylaFAX 4.0pl1 on Caldera OpenLinux w/2.0.25 kernel)
> 
> I have a situation where some faxes are not being transmitted because
> the receiving fax machine does not handle the width of the page being
> sent.   e.g.:
> 
> " Client does not support document page width,
>   max remote page width 1728 pixels, image width 1734 pixels "
> 
> Is there any way to override this error condition?   I'd like to tell
> HylaFAX to ignore this and send the fax anyways.
> 
> Also; the e-mail msg sent back to the originator does not define the
> error - only that it was tried the specified nbr of times and failed.
> 
> It would be nice too to tell HylaFAX not to retry,  Is this
> possible?  It's pretty unlikely the recipient has changed fax
> machines between tries:-)
> 
> TIA for any assistance.
> 
> --paul
>   Paul S. Russell, CMY Systems Sdn. Bhd., Shah Alam, Malaysia
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