Re: [hylafax-users] fax2ps problem or modem config ??

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

On 2002.03.19 12:15 bradw wrote:

> i have added some printing stuff into faxrcvd, because i need to print
> all
> incoming faxes.  the problem come in that for some reason the tiff file
> that is created and handed off to faxrcvd hangs fax2ps, wich causes
> faxrcvd to never finish, which causes hylafax to not answer any more
> calles!
> 
> from faxrcvd:
> if [ -f $FILE ]; then
>   $FAX2PS -S -W 8.25 -H 10.75 $FILE 2>>/tmp/fax2ps.log | lpr-cups -P
> AR507
> fi
> 
> see, fax2ps has been running for almost an 1.5 hours ! no faxes in for
> all
> that time.

Try using tiff2ps instead.

> running /usr/bin/fax2ps recvq/fax00558.tif  > fax00558.ps from the prompt
> gives:
> 
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Bad code word at scanline 82 (x 350).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Bad code word at scanline 1028 (x 1159).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Uncompressed data (not supported) at scanline
> 1029 (x 354).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Bad code word at scanline 234 (x 1416).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Bad code word at scanline 526 (x 1142).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Bad code word at scanline 584 (x 776).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Uncompressed data (not supported) at scanline
> 649 (x 1079).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Bad code word at scanline 911 (x 1648).
> Fax3Decode2D: fax00558.tif: Bad code word at scanline 1298 (x 1520).
> 
> and hangs.

cqtest is flawed.  See:
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195

Note that I have seen malformed tiffs crash ImageMagick's convert, too.

Lee.

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