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[hylafax-users] wrong pagesizes from sendfax



My problem sending TIFFs and PS-ses (see my posting from march 14th)
seems to be a problem of sendfax.
I tested this now and created TIFFs with _exactly_ a4 format
(210.25x297.25 mm^2, 300dpi) and rounded a4 (210.0x297.0 mm^2, 300dpi)
and watched with

set -x
exec 1>/var/spool/fax/tmp/mylog 2>&1

in the tiff2ps what happens
In each case there appear the lines:

+ test 6 '!=' 0
+ shift
+ pagelength=280
+ shift

which means to me, that sendfax gives tiff2fax a wrong pagelength
parameter (which results in ps2fax/tiff2fax giving gs a
-sPAPERSIZE=letter parameter)

Ich checked my /usr/lib/fax/pagesizes file (added below) and it seems
OK, at least I cannot find any reason, why a 210x297 page should be
treated as NA-LET.
Only when I put a comment (#) in front of all 'American...' pagesizes I
get a correct result (i.e.:

+ test 6 '!=' 0
+ shift
+ pagelength=279    <-- sic!
+ shift

and ps2fax (tiff2fax resp.) calls gs with -sPAPERSIZE=a4.

This is though not a desireable way of action, because this should later
on work for recieving faxes too, and we might well recieve NA-LET format
faxes.

Is there anything I didn't see/understand?
Any europeans here encountering the same problem?

Matthias

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/usr/lib/pagesizes:

ISO A3                A3     14030 19840  13200  18480  472     345
ISO A4                A4      9920 14030   9240  13200  472     345
ISO A5                A5      7133  9921   6455   9236  472     345
ISO A6                A6      5055  6991   4575   6508  472     345
ISO B4                B4     12048 17196  11325  16010  472     345
North American Letter NA-LET 10200 13200   9240  12400  472     345
American Legal        US-LEG 10200 16800   9240  15775  472     345
American Ledger       US-LED 13200 20400  11946  19162  472     345
American Executive    US-EXE  8700 12600   7874  11835  472     345
Japanese Letter       JP-LET  8598 12141   7600  10200  900     400
Japanese Legal        JP-LEG 12141 17196  11200  15300  900     400
#
default               A4      9920 14030   9240  13200  472     345
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