[Asterisk-Users] txfax and Ghostscript 8.51

[Steve Underwood]

Me wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to use spandsp and asterisk to send faxes. To do so I am
>creating tiffs with Ghostscript. When I use Ghostscript 6.50 it seems
>to work fine, but when I create the tiff using Ghostscript 8.51 (or
>7.06) txfax garbles the tiff and it comes through all messed up. 
>First of all is this a known problem or is it just me. More
>importantly does anyone know of a way to fix this, I'd like to use
>8.51 instead of 6.50.
>
>By the way, if it makes a differnece i'm currently running
>asterisk at home but I've encountered the same problem with all the other
>asterisk builds i've tried
>  
>
It is really a change to Ghostscript or a related change to libtiff 
causing you problems. Libtiff is the usual suspect when FAX images go wrong.

Regards,
Steve