mgetty-1114/vgetty-081 probs

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Hi,

Kurt Garloff wrote:
> The following is definitely not voice related:

Hmm, I didn't read all of it... -- sorry.  Just too much mail every day :-)

> > Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > > ...
> > > 3. Sending faxes to some fax devices doesn't work.
> > > I've had success with some fax machines and all fax modes so far. I failed
> > > with two fax machines. I will ask people fo the names of these machines.
> > > 
> > > Here's a part of the LOG:
> > > ...
> > > 04/17 17:41:59 yS1  sending f1.g3...
> > > 04/17 17:42:55 yS1  page complete, 51259 bytes sent
> > > 04/17 17:42:55 yS1  sending DLE ','
> > > 04/17 17:43:39 yS1  connection hangup: '+FHS:52'
> > > 04/17 17:43:39 yS1   (No response to MPS repeated 3 times)
> > > 04/17 17:43:39 yS1  got response: 'OK'
> > > 04/17 17:43:39 ##### failed transmitting f1.g3: phone="06894-870XXX",
> > > +FHS:52, dev=ttyS1, time=129s, acct=""
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Any ideas here ?

Provide more data :-)

> > > I believe, that the file, f1.g3, is fine. I catted it an extra time with
> > > g3cat without seing an error message. It has definitely 1728 cols.
> 
> I was wrong here. The first few lines had 1728 cols, as required. 

Yes, those are the ones created by "pbmtext | pbmtog3".

> The following, created by gs, did have 16XX cols. That's why some faxmachines
> did not accept the data.

"g3cat" *should* correct this, while loudly complaining about "incorrect
line width", but the way it does this (a 0-width black line, then white up
to 1728 pixels) seems to make some receivers unhappy.

> I added -g1728x2196 (resp. -g1728x1098) to the GS parameter list to fix 
> this. It worked as expected.

Some others have reported problems with that (page borders have the wrong
width, etc.).  Does "-sPAPERSIZE=a4" instead of "-g..." help?

Which ghostscript version did you use?

> I will prepare a patch and send it to the mgetty list. I will also resend the
> bug report to the list.

Thanks.

gert
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