Re: [hylafax-users] minimum page size

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Davis wrote:

>  Some documents are coming through hylafax with just a few lines. 
> There is no clue in the log to suggest this is the fault of hylayfax, 
> as the faxes with 6 or 7 lines are reported in the log, and the fax 
> session terminates normally, so hylafax knows this fax is short. 
> Probably the sender has terminated the fax or something. Because the 
> fax is so short, it converts to a weird document size so it hangs up 
> the printers.
>
>  How can I make hylafax treat the document as an 8.5 x 11 document 
> when the fax is only a few lines long? I can't arbitrarily treat all 
> faxes as 8.5 x 11 because some are legal docs, but I need some way to 
> detect these "incomplete" faxes amd resize them. 


One way that I "filter" received faxes is that (in FaxDispatch) I use 
tiffsplit, then I analyze each resulting file, and then I rejoin all 
"acceptable" pages using tiffcp.  I usually recommend storing the new 
result in a different location thatn the original (thus not overwriting 
it), but that's not always possible, especially if you use client 
software... in which case I recommend copying the original to a 
temporary backup somewhere.

Lee.

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