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hylafax 6.0.5 reports no internal pcl support, earlier version worked

Asked by Doug Minett

I have tried adding 'Use2D; no' to /etc/hylafax/config (as some have suggested).

I have tried editing /etc/hylafax/typerules (as pcl notes suggest in that file) in attempt to enable pcl6 - but have no idea where/how to locate/install pcl6 (binary?). (it is clearly not in any of my bin path) I assume that pcl6 converts pcl docs to tiff.

Any help (or workaround) would be appreciated.

thanks,
doug.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug

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Doug Minett (doug-minett) said : 		#2

the fact that a message is returned by hylafax would indicate that it is currently a known issue. it makes little sense to me why the hylafax team seems to have withdrawn support from previous functionality that is very valuable.

any other ideas out there regarding pcl6?

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Doug Minett (doug-minett) said : 		#3

It would be nice if Hylafax supported PCL internally but I have implemented a work around on my own. here are the steps to implement PCL support:

the challenge is to build yourself a 'pcl6' binary for your linux environment.

find a recent tar.gz of 'ghostpdl' and install it using these steps:

gunzip and tar xvf the ghostpdl tar.gz
cp resulting directory to /usr/src
./configure
make (which takes forever even on a pretty fast machine..)
make install (which results in a binary called pcl6 being placed in /usr/local/bin)

edit /etc/hylafax/typerules to disable internal hylafax processing lines for pcl and enable the pcl6 processing line

restart hylafax

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Doug Minett (doug-minett) said : 		#4

It would be nice if Hylafax supported PCL internally but I have implemented a work around on my own. here are the steps to implement PCL support:

the challenge is to build yourself a 'pcl6' binary for your linux environment.

find a recent tar.gz of 'ghostpdl' and install it using these steps:

gunzip and tar xvf the ghostpdl tar.gz
cp resulting directory to /usr/src
./configure
make (which takes forever even on a pretty fast machine..)
make install (which results in a binary called pcl6 being placed in /usr/local/bin)

edit /etc/hylafax/typerules to disable internal hylafax processing lines for pcl and enable the pcl6 processing line

restart hylafax