Re: flexfax: printing long pages, and errors on sender's fax machine

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> 
> How can I print long faxes, with pages of 50 cm or longer ? (Unlimited
> Page Length) ? If I send them to the printer with fax2ps, I only get the
> last part of the page. I use Linux with hylafax version 4.x (don't know
> which one exactly), and ghostscript.

You must specify the page size to ghostscript (I'm not sure if you can set
arbitrary sizes, or whether you can do this within the postscript file).
Postscript prints with an origin at the bottom left, so, if you send
a document that is longer than the page, you will lose the top of the
document.  N.B. postscript interpreters always image the whole page; they
can't output top to bottom as the data arrives - it may well not arrive in
that sequence.

If you don't have a printer that can print 50cm pages in one go, you will
need to add postscript translate instructions to the postscript file, to
move the image relative to the page, or convert the fax to pbm and use the
netpbm tools to extract two A4 sized images.

Note most faxes are declared as unlimited length.

Also, before asking for support, make sure that you know the exact version
numbers (including ghostscript in this case), and for this question, the
type of printer used. 

> 
> Another problem I have is that when people send me a fax, they get an
> error message, while I receive the fax correctly. I have this problem with
> all fax machines I tried.

Can't help on this one.

Also, you appear to have forced the envelope sender to an invalid domain
name.

> X-Authentication-Warning: turing.frank.gevaerts: fg owned process doing -bs
> X-Sender: fg@turing.frank.gevaerts

(I've assumed that sgi have moved Sender to X-Sender, rather than overwriting
the one you put in.   The host name certainly looks misconfigured.)