Bug 569957

Summary:	Updated ghostscript breaks Hylafax
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Eliran Itzhak <eliranitzhak>
Component:	ghostscript	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	twaugh
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Description Eliran Itzhak 2010-03-02 19:58:07 UTC

Description of problem:
After upgrading to the latest Ghostscript package, Hylafax started sending Empty pages.
I mean, when you send a fax with the original Fedora 12 ghostscript (ghostscript-8.70-1.fc12.i686), the fax is ok, but when sending a pdf page as a fax with hylafax and the latest ghostscript (8.71-4.fc12) hylafax starts to send Empty pages with only the tag line at the top.
Sending TIFF files as a fax works well while there is a problem with PDF files.

Using hylafax-5.1.8-1.i386 on Fedora 12 (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686.PAE)

I couldn't find further information while looking at the regular logs, nor with the fax sending command in verbose mode (sendfax -vv)



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ghostscript (8.71-4.fc12)

How reproducible:
install the latest  ghostscript (8.71-4.fc12) 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install  ghostscript (8.71-4.fc12) 
2. try to send a PDF page as a fax.
3.
  
Actual results:
The fax page sent is Empty, with just the fax tag line at the top.

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2010-03-12 15:24:13 UTC

Does 'sendfax -vv' mention how it is calling ghostscript at all?  Does it say anything at all about converting the file?

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2010-03-15 17:34:28 UTC

The default MaxStripSize had changed from 0 in ghostscript-8.70 to 8192 in
ghostscript-8.71.

I've set it back to 0 in ghostscript-8.71-5.fc12.  Could you give it a go
pleas?

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=161952

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2010-03-16 16:31:25 UTC

I've include the upstream version of that fix, along with some other TIFF-related fixes, in ghostscript-8.71-6.fc12 which has been submitted as a test update for Fedora 12.

Please that that and let me know how it goes.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-6.fc12

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