Re: flexfax: Viewing received faxes via http browser

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Edward S. Marshall wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Uri Shkolnik wrote:
> > I'm running Hylafax 4p1 on SunOS4.1.4, I want to enabled users to view
> > faxes with Netscape/Internet Explorer etc. via my Intranet web site.
> > 
> > Does anybody have a working system like this?
> 
> You could probably rig up something with the Adobe PDF reader plug-in, and
> a liberal application of ps2pdf. ;-) Or, convert it to a ReallyBigJPEG(tm),
> and eliminate the need for the PDF plugin.

*OUCH*. What would be ideal is a reader (such as viewfax, which I use)
to view the raw tiffg3 files (there is an OK demo one available for
Win95, I believe called acdsee). Also workable is translating the
tiffg3 into a set of multiple single page TIFF files for
viewing. Doing tiffg3->Postscript->JPEG is just sucking down CPU and
disk space and bandwidth in a *serious* kludge.

Hmm. Come to think of it: Does anyone have the scripting in place to
modify faxrcvd to automagically generate TIFF files, one file/page of
fax and appropriately numbered? This might be a good option for
handling Web based FAX service....


			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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