flexfax: fax2ps/tiff2ps puts short tiff at bottom of page

[John Williams <williams@morinda.com>]

I have a problem when sending a few lines in a fax, which appears to
be a problem with fax2ps or tiff2ps on the receiving side.  The document
on the sending side (in the docq directory) look fine.

The cover page prints fine, but the second page (which is short, since is
only contains a few lines) is rendered at the bottom of the page instead
of at the top.

I am using "tiff2ps -pa1 $FILE" to generate the postscript file for
printing, and tests with fax2ps show that is does the same thing.

Does anyone know how to fix this, or encountered it before?

~ John Williams


Here is the output from tiffinfo, showing the short Image Length for the
second page.

[root@vger recvq]# tiffinfo fax04187.tif
TIFF Directory at offset 0x4ab2
  Subfile Type: multi-page document (2 = 0x2)
  Image Width: 1728 Image Length: 2162
  Resolution: 204, 196 pixels/inch
  Bits/Sample: 1
  Compression Scheme: CCITT Group 3
  Photometric Interpretation: min-is-white
  FillOrder: lsb-to-msb
  Date & Time: "1998:09:28 10:14:02"
  Host Computer: "vger.morinda.com"
  Software: "HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl2"
  Image Description: "MORINDA, INC. (VGER)"
  Make: "MULTI-TECH SYSTEMS"
  Model: "MT1932ZDX"
  Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs
  Samples/Pixel: 1
  Rows/Strip: (infinite)
  Planar Configuration: single image plane
  Group 3 Options: 2-d encoding (1 = 0x1)
  Fax Data: clean (0 = 0x0)
  Fax Receive Parameters: 0000030b
  Fax Receive Time: 14 secs
TIFF Directory at offset 0x5900
  Subfile Type: multi-page document (2 = 0x2)
  Image Width: 1728 Image Length: 274
  Resolution: 204, 196 pixels/inch
  Bits/Sample: 1
  Compression Scheme: CCITT Group 3
  Photometric Interpretation: min-is-white
  FillOrder: lsb-to-msb
  Date & Time: "1998:09:28 10:14:16"
  Host Computer: "vger.morinda.com"
  Software: "HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl2"
  Image Description: "MORINDA, INC. (VGER)"
  Make: "MULTI-TECH SYSTEMS"
  Model: "MT1932ZDX"
  Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs
  Samples/Pixel: 1
  Rows/Strip: (infinite)
  Planar Configuration: single image plane
  Group 3 Options: 2-d encoding (1 = 0x1)
  Fax Data: clean (0 = 0x0)
  Fax Receive Parameters: 0000030b
  Fax Receive Time: 4 secs