Re: HylaFax receives rubbish

[Clement <clement@ans.com.au>]

Tim Kelley wrote:

> 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
>  
Did that.  And get only random black lines. :(

> 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
>  
Thank you very much.  Do try that.  And will report it when I get any 
progress.

Regards,
Clement