by I recently installed mgetty-sendfax 1.1.14 (the one that came with Redhat
6.0) and got incoming data and fax calls via my USR Courier Sportster
56k working with absolutely no trouble, save one. When a fax is converted
into Postscript and either printed or viewed, the result is that the fax
has been scaled down to fit on a page with two-inch margins all around; in
other words, the fax is about 4.5x7 inches on an 8.5x11 page.
Here is an example of how a fax -- the last one I received -- was
received and converted. First, the information about the fax that mgetty
emailed me:
Communication parameters: +FCS:0,5,0,2,0,0,0,0
Resolution : normal
Bit Rate : 14400
Page Width : 1728 pixels
Page Length: unlimited
Compression: 0 (1d mod Huffman)
Error Corr.: none
Scan Time : 0
Then the conversion from g3 into Postscript:
foreach i (fn8f90c92S0-_-+0000000000_.0[1-4])
g32pbm $i | pbmtops > $i.ps
endif
(This is g32pbm written by Gert Doering that came with mgetty-sendfax.)
The resulting pages each had approximately a two-inch border, and the fax
had been scaled down accordingly when viewed with ghostscript or printed
to the Postscript laser printer.
Just to rule out the possibility of a screwy fax machine on the sending
end, I tried a test fax from work, from a fax machine that I know works
fine, and the same thing happened -- two inch border around everything.
And if it matters, the modem is configured by mgetty as follows:
04/15 20:44:31 yS0 USR Courier/Sportster 56k detected
04/15 20:44:31 yS0 mdm_send: 'ATI3'
04/15 20:44:31 yS0 additional info: 'U.S. Robotics 56K FAX EXT V5.1.4'
04/15 20:44:31 yS0 mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2.0' -> OK
04/15 20:44:32 yS0 mdm_send: 'AT+FAA=0;+FCR=1' -> OK
04/15 20:44:32 yS0 mdm_send: 'AT+FBO=1' -> OK
04/15 20:44:32 yS0 mdm_send: 'AT+FNR=1,1,1,0' -> OK
04/15 20:44:32 yS0 mdm_send: 'AT+FLI="<my fax number>"' -> OK
04/15 20:44:32 yS0 mdm_send: 'AT+FCC=1,5,0,2,0,0,0,0' -> OK
The mgetty configuration regarding faxes is pretty much the one out of
the box, except, of course, that tty devices, phone numbers, and fax
headers have been changed.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Is it a problem with mgetty
and/or its configuration? Is it the conversion process described above?
Thanks!
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