Re: flexfax: Fwd: Hylafax

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

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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 Sinisa.Milivojevic@ns.coresinc.com wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, you wrote on subject Re: flexfax: Fwd: Hylafax:
> >
> >On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 Sinisa.Milivojevic@ns.coresinc.com wrote:
> >
> >Well, yes, but it sucks. First you would need to split it into
> >multiple pages using something like "tiffsplit", renaming the files
> >appropriately, and turn *those* into GIF's. That is bulky and asking
> >for trouble, and they won't look as good as they might, especially
> >when people try to print them: Why not find a set of TIFF viewers that
> >will work correctly for your company? Or, if you have spare disk space,
> >use Postscript?
> >
> >I use viewfax under UNIX, and acdsee under Win95, and use a web-server
> >to directly serve the HylaFAX TIFF files.
> 
> That is exactly what I would like to know. The format of outgoing faxes
> is,  judging by  what you say, standard TIFF which can be viewed in WWW
> browser !!!!!!!! Please confirm. In that case, I would just have to copy
> a file to another directory, before it is deleted in "send" method of
> SendApp.

Wait: are you talking about viewing the *OUTGOING* faxes, or the incoming?

In any case, the fax documents are transformed into tiffg3 or tiffg4,
depending on your settings. Yes, this is TIFF. No, many graphic
viewers cannot handle it properly, being written for more commonly
used *versions* of TIFF.

Sam Leffler of SGI apparently wrote TIFF, and he wrote the original
flexfax and HylaFAX, so I assume it is in fact completely up to the
TIFF standards. But what other people do with it to make it usable
for them is an adventure in standards....

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

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