What device for Ghostscript with mgetty ?

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Hi,

Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote:
> In ChangeLog og mgetty-1.1.9 :
> 
> * fax/faxspool.in: make faxg3 the default driver for ghostscript,
> as it is compiled-in by default in ghostscript 3, 4 and 5, and the
> output quality in gs 5.01 is better than that of dfaxhigh.
> 
> If I use faxg3 as device for ghoscript, I have problems with multi-page
> fax. Transmission fails with :
> 
> Transmission error: +FHNG:51 (RSPREC error)
> or
> Transmission error: +FHNG:52 (No response to MPS repeated 3 times)

Very weird. How did the pages come out on the remote end? Was this the
very same fax number that worked fine with dfaxhigh? Or another one, where
you don't have data whether it works with dfaxhigh? [This is a big
difference!]

> Is there something special to do to use faxg3 ? 

Not that I know of.

> Is the quality really better ?

The rendering is slightly different, and I liked it better. More
important, faxg3 is compiled in by default, while dfaxhigh is not, which
caused lots of questions from users with an "incomplete" ghostscript.

> BTW, is there some tool allowing
> to check fax files ? (viewfax for example is happy with these faxg3
> files).

If the g3 files are broken, "g3cat file.g3 >/dev/null" should tell you so
(about bad G3 codes, or wrong line width problems). If neither g3cat nor
"viewfax -v file.g3" complain, the file is OK.

gert
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