Re: flexfax: HylaFAX sends empty page after cover ...

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 12:48:53AM +0100, Heribert Steuer wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:42:35 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 08:18:50PM +0100, Heribert Steuer wrote:
> >> Faxing works fine (after hours of fixing modem setup problems ... damn S130 ;) )
> >> but after i created an own cover page and setting hylafax up to send it 
> >> there is an empty page beeing sent after the cover page.
> >> I cant find the problem myself.
> >> I created the cover using TGIF ...
> >
> >I _have_ to start thinking before sending.
> >
> >One other possibility: perhaps your cover page is too _tall_?  I'm not
> >sure what ghostscript does when you hand it an oversize page, but that
> >might be it's reaction.
> 
> I _have_ to start thinking before answering.

<chuckle>

> The idea of too tall cover was the first thing i thought off ...  the cover page is definitively NOT the reason ;)
> but thanks anyway for your suggestion.

Meaning that if you use the "don't send a cover page" argument to
sendfax, you _still_ get a leading blank page?  Does this page have a
tagline?  What is the page numbering like?  And what is the source of
your data pages -- have you tried multiple filetypes?

Cheers,
-- jra
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