Re: HylaFax receives rubbish

[Tim Kelley <tim@it.kpt.cc>]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:56, Clement wrote:
> Just tried Hylafax.  After spending hours to play around, I finally got
> Hyafax to receive fax.  However, the pages received are just rubbish.  When
> I setup Hylafax to email received fax as a PDF to me, that PDF is a totally
> white page.
>
> Do you know where can I start to find and fix the problem?
>
> Debian installed is Sarge, with kernel 2.6.7.  Hylafax-server, hylafax-doc
> and hylafax-client are all 4.1.8-13
>
> The only suspicious thing in the installation is the complaint about
> ghostscript fonts.  I did this to quiet the complaint:
>
> ln -s /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts /usr/share/gs-gpl/fonts
>
> This works to get hylafax to send.

well first just simplify ...

don't bother with email or translating formats ... just try to read the tiff 
files that hylafax creates when it receives a fax

if the problem is with tiff files then you can usually force the modem to 
negotiate a more compatible format; there are all manner of tiff varieties 
and it can be a real PITA

tiff libraries in sarge were recently upgraded to libtiff4 and this could be 
the issue

is translation to postscript is the issue you should look at ghostscript ...


check the BTS for hylafax and ghostscript

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