Re: Wordperfect - Fax

[Jeff So <jcs@travelsurf.com>]

Actually, this shall be a question on Wordperfect list. So, please excuse
me first.

Finally, I found the PostScript driver for Wordperfect and reinstall it
through the -adm stuff.  Now, I can use print to the Disk option to
save the document as a Postscript file, and then use sendfax to send out
this saved document.
But I want to automate this process a little bit more.  I hope my
end-users can use wordperfect just like they did before, save their
document as WP document.  And if they want to send a fax, they just have
to type : sendfax -d #number <wpfile>

In order to do that, the typerules must call the wprint command comes with
WP, but when I issue the following command and hoping the wprint will
generate a postscript file for me ( hplj3pps.prs is the postscript printer
driver I am using )

	wprint -f tmp.dsk -p hplj3pps.prs mydoc

The system did nothing and I cannot find the tmp.dsk anywhere. So I change
the command to :

	wprint -f tmp.dsk -o Disk -p hplj3pps.prs mydoc

Now, the system complain about the -o argument not correct.  I try few
different name for the -o, all return the same complain.  So, have any one
try this before, and what exactly the wprint is expecting from -o option.

Thankyou.


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On Wed, 28 May 1997, Brett Lymn wrote:

> According to jonc@pinnacle.co.nz:
> >
> >If you can find a Postscript printer driver for WordPerfect, you can
> >possibly tailor your setup so that it generates a Postscript file,
> >which you can then use sendfax(1) to send.
> 
> Postscript printers are in abundance in WP for unix.  As a bog
> standard I would use the Apple laserwriter.  To "automatically" print
> faxes I set up a unix print queue that passed the print job through
> ps2ascii to extract the text and picked out the phone number by
> pattern matching, the script then submitted the job via sendfax.
> Things were made particularly easy here for me because we had a
> standard fax template that made snarfing the phone number simple.
> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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