problem with pstopnm/faxspool with ps

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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:23:02AM -0500, Sonny Baillargeon wrote:
> ok here it is...
> 
> faxspool
> 
> + FAX_SPOOL=/var/spool/fax

Hmmm. I'm not sure why you run it with "set -x", but it doesn't hurt.

[..]
> + echo -e hosts.ps is format: ps
> hosts.ps is format: ps

The file format is recognized...

> + cat hosts.ps
> +
> gs -sDEVICE=faxg3 -r204x196 -sOutputFile=/var/spool/fax/outgoing/F000014/i-0
> 001-%03d -dNOPAUSE -q -dSAFER -

... ghostscript is called, and doesn't complain...

> + echo -e \nnothing to do (no cover page, no data).
> 
> nothing to do (no cover page, no data).

... but no output files are created.

Looks to me like "hosts.ps" is an EPS file, not plain postscript - EPS
doesn't contain a "showpage" command, and thus can't be faxed or printed.

[..]
> if ( hosts.ps =~  ) eval usage
> if ( ! -f hosts.ps ) then
> set bb = `grep "%%BoundingBox" $psfile`
> grep %%BoundingBox hosts.ps

I'm not really sure what this does, but it looks like "find out whether
this is an EPS file" (and it seems to be).

gert
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