Re: [Asterisk-Users] viewing fax tiffs?

[Steve Edwards]

I had troubles with tiff2ps as well.

I use the following script:

#
#       Filename:       aster-fax.sh
#
#       Version:        000
#
#       Edit date:      08-Jun-2004
#
#       Facility:       Asterisk
#
#       Abstract:       Convert a received fax to PDF and email.
#
#       Environment:    Unix, sh
#
#       Author:         Steven L. Edwards
#
#       Modified by
#
#       000     08-Jun-2004     SLE     Create.
#
# call with:
#       $1 = filename
#       $2 = email address
#       $3 = calleridnum
#       $4 = calleridname
#
# save some arguments
        BASENAME=$(basename "$1" .tiff)
        FROM="$3 $4"
        FULLNAME="$1"
        PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
        TO="$2"
#
# convert the TIFF into single page TIFF's
# (tiff2ps's "-a" doesn't seem to work for me.)
        convert $FULLNAME $BASENAME-%02d.tiff
#
# output the MIME headers, convert the TIFF files to PS to PDF, MIME
# encode it and mail it.
        (
        echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
        echo "Content-ID: <"`date`">"
        echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding:  base64"
        echo "Content-Type:  application/pdf; name=\"$BASENAME.pdf\""
        echo "Subject: Fax from $FROM"
        tiff2ps -2 -a -e -h 11 -w 8.5 $BASENAME-[0-9][0-9].tiff\
                | ps2pdf -\
                | mimencode -b
        ) | sendmail $TO
#
# (end of aster-fax.sh)

I invoke it in extensions.conf as:

        exten = h,1,system(/usr/local/bin/aster-fax.sh ${FAXFILE} \
                [EMAIL PROTECTED] "${CALLERIDNUM} ${CALLERIDNAME}")

(all on 1 line, of course)

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Matthew Asham wrote:

Hello,

I have spandsp setup to accept incoming faxes and receiving tif files
via Email.

Using tiff2pdf, or tiff2ps -a2 or even tiffsplit, the last page of the
fax is cut off and the quality of the text looks "squished".

I "figure" it's a tiff parsing thing, as opposed to a problem with my
spandsp installation (heh).

Has anyone experienced the same thing, or can anyone recommend a
"proper" way to convert fax'd tiffs to another format or even a
multi-page tiff viewer for Linux?

Thanks

Matthew

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