Re: flexfax: tiff printing problems

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On 22 Oct 1999 rwk@americom.com wrote:

> Case 2 - if I use:
> 
>   tiff2ps file.tif | gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - | lpr
> 
>   It prints without the haze, but it is missing the tag line at the top
>   of the page.  (It appears to be shifting the text up a line so the tag
>   line is off the page.)

This could be a page size problem: different printers and configurations
use A4 vs. letter size pages, and this could cost you some space at the
top of the page if you have a different page size than the fax sender
used.

> I am using the latest tiff2ps and the latest libtiff.so, as well as gs
> 5.50.  I am running hylafax-4.1beta1-1rh5.i386.rpm on RH Linux kernel
> 2.5.

HOLD IT! "latest libtiff.so"? Which TIFF package? HylaFAX was written
with tiff-3.4beta037, the last one from Sam Leffler, as I remember.
There is a slightly "newer" one called tiff-3.5 from www.libtiff.org,
that no one I know has given a full test and report on.

I'm also unaware of a 2.5 kernel release for Linux: I thought the latest
from RedHat was 2.2.xxx?

> Bottom line is I can't get the tag line to display without also getting
> the haze (which blurs the text of the fax).

Full package descriptions, and the brand of your printer, please!
Also, have you examined the Postscript with "ghostview" on your computer
displays to look for bugs there?

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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