[hylafax-users] faxmail prologue / created ps contains leading blank page

["Martin G.H. Minkler" <minkler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alohá!

Debian sarge
Version: 1:4.2.1-5sarge3

Problem:

When feeding mails that contain nothing but an attachment (ps or pdf 
(pdf support added via MIMEConverters)) to '/usr/bin/faxmail -v -n -s a4 
-d $faxno  > /tmp/faxjob$$ 2>&1' the ps that is created, then put in 
/var/spool/hylafax/docq/ and sent by hylafax contains a blank leading page.

Looking at the ps file the following starts all processed files:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: HylaFAX TextFormat Class
%%Title: HylaFAX-Mail
%%CreationDate: Mon May 22 12:28:29 2006
%%For: nobody
%%Origin: 0 0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
%%Pages: (atend)
%%PageOrder: Ascend
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica-Bold Courier
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
/$printdict 50 dict def $printdict begin
/Cols 1 def
/PageWidth 7.77 def
/PageHeight 11.09 def
/LH 240 def
/B{gsave}def
/LN{show}def
/EL{grestore 0 -240 rmoveto}def
/M{0 rmoveto}def
/O{gsave show grestore}def
/LandScape{90 rotate 0 -16835 translate}def
/U{1440 mul}def
/UP{U 72 div}def
/S{show grestore 0 -240 rmoveto}def
/InitGaudyHeaders{
 /HeaderY exch def /BarLength exch def
 /ftD /Times-Bold findfont 12 UP scalefont def
 /ftF /Times-Roman findfont 14 UP scalefont def
 /ftP /Helvetica-Bold findfont 30 UP scalefont def
 /fillbox{ % w h x y => -
   moveto 1 index 0 rlineto 0 exch rlineto neg 0 rlineto
   closepath fill
 }def
 /LB{ % x y w h (label) font labelColor boxColor labelPtSize => -
   gsave
   /pts exch UP def /charcolor exch def /boxcolor exch def
   /font exch def /label exch def
   /h exch def /w exch def
   /y exch def /x exch def
   boxcolor setgray w h x y fillbox
   /lines label length def
   /ly y h add h lines pts mul sub 2 div sub pts .85 mul sub def
   font setfont charcolor setgray
   label {
     dup stringwidth pop
     2 div x w 2 div add exch sub ly moveto
     show
     /ly ly pts sub def
   } forall
   grestore
 }def
 /Header{ % (file) [(date)] (page) => -
   /Page exch def /Date exch def /File exch def
   .25 U HeaderY U BarLength .1 sub U .25 U [File] ftF .97 0 14 LB
   .25 U HeaderY .25 add U BarLength .1 sub U .25 U [()] ftF 1 0 14 LB
   .25 U HeaderY U 1 U .5 U Date ftD .7 0 12 LB
   BarLength .75 sub U HeaderY U 1 U .5 U [Page] ftP .7 1 30 LB
   1 1 Cols 1 sub{
     BarLength Cols div mul .19 add U HeaderY U moveto 0 -10 U rlineto 
stroke
   }for
 }def
}def
/InitNormalHeaders{
 /HeaderY exch def /BarLength exch def
 /ftF /Times-Roman findfont 14 UP scalefont def
 /ftP /Helvetica-Bold findfont 14 UP scalefont def
 /LB{ % x y w h (label) font labelColor labelPtSize => -
   gsave
   /pts exch UP def /charcolor exch def
   /font exch def /label exch def
   /h exch def /w exch def
   /y exch def /x exch def
   /ly y h add h pts sub 2 div sub pts .85 mul sub def
   font setfont charcolor setgray
   label stringwidth pop 2 div x w 2 div add exch sub ly moveto
   label show
   grestore
 }def
 /Header{ % (file) [(date)] (page) => -
   /Page exch def pop /File exch def
   .25 U HeaderY U BarLength 2 div U .5 U File ftF 0 14 LB
   BarLength .75 sub U HeaderY U 1 U .5 U Page ftP 0 14 LB
   1 1 Cols 1 sub{
     BarLength Cols div mul .19 add U HeaderY U moveto 0 -10 U rlineto 
stroke
   }for
 }def
}def
/InitNullHeaders{/Header{3{pop}repeat}def pop pop}def
7.77 11.34 InitNullHeaders
/sf1{/Helvetica-Bold findfont 10 UP scalefont setfont}def
/s1{sf1 show}def
/sf0{/Courier findfont 10 UP scalefont setfont}def
/s0{sf0 show}def
end
%%EndProlog
%%Page: "1" 1
save $printdict begin
.05 dup scale
sf0 ()[()()](1)Header
360 16092 moveto
B()S
B()S
B()S
B()S
B()S
B()S
B()S

showpage
end restore

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Then the attachment's code starts with
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 792
%%LanguageLevel: 1
%%Creator: [...]
and so forth.

After trying literally everything I could think of (including i.e. 
renaming  /var/spool/hylafax/etc/faxmail.ps) I am at my wits' end.

How do I tell faxmail to simply take the attachment that already is in 
proper ps format and send it to hylafax instead of creating a ps file 
that contains a blank page and below that the original ps file?

The -d option doesn't seem to do the trick. Or is the problem at the 
hylafax-server side? Sending the very same documents via sendfax from 
the command line works perfectly fine...

--
Schöne Grüße aus Bonn

Martin Minkler
Systemadministration

// artegic AG
// Dreizehnmorgenweg 40-42
// 53175 Bonn
// Tel.: +49(0)228 22 77 97-61
// Fax: +49(0)228 22 77 97-900
// www.artegic.de



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