Problems on sending to a Toshiba fax machine

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Hi,

allgood@my-dejanews.com wrote:
  ^^^^^^^^^^ hmmm...

> I'm having problems to send faxes to a Toshiba machine. After the first page,
> faxrunq exits with signal 12. On the fax machine appears BAD PICTURE.
> 
> Yes, I know all about pbmplus bug, and I've patched it. I've tried to send
> only the ghostscript faxg3 output, and the same error appears.
> 
> I've tried it on 3 types of Toshiba faxes, and allways I've got this error.

Sounds like a G3 page creation problem.  One would need to know what kind
of input files are used, whether you use faxspool or a direct call to
ghostscript, etc.  -- see the manual for more data on this.

> Everything works good on other types of fax machines. The most incredible
> thing is that I've just sended a fax with output from ghostscript tiffg3 and
> the faxrunq exit was 0! I don't know if the fax has been delivered well, but
> sendfax think that it was.

Very interesting.  Usually, tiffg3 will definitely create some problems
(but the header data may be received as "garbage" and thus ignored, it
might even work).

> May Toshiba faxes expecting tiffg3?? 

No.  The G3 standard is very clear.

> May be Ghostscript generating bad images
> that only some fax machines complain?

Yes. See the docs.

> My test environment is:
> 
> Linux 2.0.33
> mgetty+sendfax-1.0.0
> Ghostscript 3.30
> Modem USR Sportster 33600
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this might as well be the problem.

> Please, if you can, answer by e-mail, because my de.* newsgroup access is
> limited by dejanews.

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