Re: [hylafax-users] conversion to pdf

[steve downes <steve@kingswayelec.co.uk>]

on Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:18:54PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: 
> steve downes wrote:
> >I've just set up Hylafax on a new machine & it is basically
> >working. The only problem is when I set it up to sent faxes to my
> >email address as a pdf it sends an empty file. If I set it to ps it
> >works fine & sends a ps file. I can convert the ps to pdf manually
> >using ps2pdf & it is fine. 
> >
> >Not sure what the process is so I don't know where to satrt
> >looking. Any pointers greatfully received.
> >
> 
> I had the same problem with 4.1.x under FreeBSD, I suspect a difference 
> there between various Linuces and BSD in the way the enviroment is set up.
> 
> Anyway, what I did to fix it was to include the complete paths for the 
> commands in the script /var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxrcvd, like 
> "PS2PDF=/usr/local/bin/ps2pdfwr"
> 
> I also got some very useful debugging output by including something 
> similar to "exec 2> /tmp/logfile; set -xv" in the script.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Per olof
> 
Problem turned out to be a lack of metamail (I thought it was already
installed)

Many thanks anway

Steve

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