Re: YUP, IT WORKS!! flexfax: found the error, but no solution

["Karl" <friend@forfree.at>]

thanks for the tip. that was really hard to find out. all the programms i use
to view: tiffview, paint shop, acd... hat the low resolution pages in the wrong
format. with the imaging software now it works perfect.

thanks a lot for the hint.

karl

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Holger Raschke <Holger.Raschke@FernUni-Hagen.de>
An: Karl <friend@forfree.at>
Cc: flexfax <flexfax@sgi.com>
Datum: Montag, 27. September 1999 21:23
Betreff: Re: flexfax: found the error, but no solution


>Hi Karl,
>it looks to me as if you have a "broken tiff viewer" problem.
>I had the same problem on my windows clients.
>Supposing that you want to view your faxes with microsoft windows, have
>a look at Wang (now Eastman) Imaging, as bundled with many versions of
>'95 and NT 4,
>and available at no extra charge from Microsoft's web site.
>
>It doesn't seem to like 2D coded faxes, so you may have to run tiffcp,
>or enable copy quality checking in Hylafax, and configure it for 1D
>output.
>
>For me it works fine.
>Hope this helps.
>Holger
>
>Karl wrote:
>>
>> i now found out why my received faxes in low-resolution are pressed to 50%
of
>> the page. the log:
>>
>> --- snip ---
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants page width 1728 pixels in 215 mm
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants unlimited page length
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants 3.85 line/mm
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: REMOTE wants 1-D MR
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: --> [7:CONNECT]
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: RECV: begin page
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: RECV: send trigger 022
>> Sep 22 22:10:09.61: [  315]: <-- data [1]
>> *** Sep 22 22:11:26.88: [  315]: RECV: 1139 total lines, 0 bad lines, 0
>> consecutive bad lines   <<<===== received 1139 lines
>> *** Sep 22 22:11:26.88: [  315]: --> [17:+FPTS: 1,2219,0,0] <<<<<=====
modem
>> reports 2219
>> Sep 22 22:11:28.29: [  315]: --> [7:+FET: 2]
>> Sep 22 22:11:28.29: [  315]: RECV recv EOP (no more pages or documents)
>> Sep 22 22:11:28.29: [  315]: --> [2:OK]
>> Sep 22 22:11:28.31: [  315]: RECV send MCF (message confirmation)
>> Sep 22 22:11:28.31: [  315]: RECV FAX (00000048): from <UNSPECIFIED>, page 1
in
>> 1:22, INF, 3.85 line/mm, 1-D MR
>> Sep 22 22:11:28.33: [  315]: RECV FAX (00000048): recvq/fax00032.tif from
>> <UNSPECIFIED>, route to <u
>> --- snip ---
>>
>> in high resolution i get 2290 lines received and this is why it looks fine.
>> this happens on both modems the same way. one is a best-data 14400 with
>> rockwell chipset and one is a us-robotics.
>>
>> does somebody know how to patch hylafax to take the received lines for
>> calculating the tiff insted of the FPTS value? i am running 4.0pl2 under
>> freebsd 3.2 on both machines. except that low-resolution receiving thing i
>> would be ready for going on the production machines.
>>
>> many thanks,
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Karl M. Joch   STOC#806   Pan 96 Red
>> "Wer die Freiheit aufgibt, um Sicherheit zu gewinnen,
>> der wird am Ende beides verlieren"             (Benjamin Franklin)
>> karl@proline.at
>> http://st1100.proline.at
>