US Robotics fax, new infos and questions

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Hi,

On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 08:31:32AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Apr 1999, Gert Döring wrote:
> > Now that puts me at a loss... - maybe it's just your G3 files that are
> > corrupt?  Does "g3cat" give any warnings about wrong line width or so?
> 
> [norbert: ~] g3cat -p 24 -R f2.g3 > out.g3
> [norbert: ~] 
> 
> sending out.g3 -> FHS:51 :-(((

Hmmm.

So we have the padding done, and with or without RTC, it's always the
same.

It *could* be a problem of page length.  What kind of fax machine is at
the receiving side (roll paper, or "standard A4 single sheet")?  Please
try converting the file to pbm (g32pbm), truncating to 2000 lines length
(pnmcut 0 0 1728 2000), and convert back to G3.  Then try the result...

Background: if a G3 image is prepared by ghostscript, and then a header is
added to it by pbmtext/pbmtog3/g3cat, the resulting image will be slightly
longer than A4.  Most, if not all, fax machines just Don't Care (as this
happens for many normal scanner machines as well), but some might choke on
this.   Best to make sure this isn't the reason for the failures.

gert
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