Attempt to fax pdf file results in: efax-0.9a: 08:24:48 Error: can't read multi-strip TIFF files efax-0.9a: 08:24:48 Error: missing offset to TIFF data efax-0.9a: 08:24:48 finished - unrecoverable error Downgrading to ghostscript 8.70 works as expected, without errors.
As I recall we discussed the issue of fax software not being able to read multi-strip tiff files via email/irc and that the decision was that we were going to write out single strip tiffs for small output files. I assume from this bug that this isn't what was implemented.
We changed all TIFF devices to use libtiff. Unfortunately this lib doesn't have a way to compress strips without buffering the entire strip, so the we changed (sort of at the last minute) to using a default MaxStripSize=8192 (see base/gdevtifs.h:53:#define TIFF_DEFAULT_STRIP_SIZE 8192) Either change that line to 0 and rebuild, or use the command line option: -dMaxStripSize=0 The problem is really that 'efax' is a non-compliant TIFF reader. Closing as WONTFIX
Thanks! Changing TIFF_DEFAULT_STRIP_SIZE to 0 and rebuilding works fine.