Comment 6 for bug 580568
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| Bodo (bodo-bodo-m) wrote Re: Hylafax is sending blank pages. | #6 |
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Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> it seems the problem is in ghostscript and has been fixed upstream.
That's a matter of opinion.
HylaFAX relies on Ghostscript having a default MaxStripSize that is large enough. The default that used to be 0 (unlimited) was changed to a small value that broke HylaFAX. In a recent version the default has been changed again to a value that seems to be big enough. Who knows what might get changed in future versions of Ghostscript.
I think it's a good idea to make HylaFAX more robust by explicitly specifying parameters for Ghostscript and maybe checking the resulting TIFF file.
In the HylaFAX mailing list a message was posted with a link to a version that checks the TIFF file created by Ghostscript and modifies it if necessary. IIRC this patch is included in HylaFAX+. The scripts in HylaFAX+ may be different from HylaFAX, but it should be possible to copy the mechanism to appropriate places in HylaFAX.
Bodo