flexfax: AW: flexfax: Hylafax related Problem: Printing TIFF´s wi th Winword in low Resolution (204x98)

[Christoph Stotz <pif@logo.de>]

>  ??? Why aren't you using a simple Postscript driver, such as one of
> the Apple Laserwriter drivers, and letting HylaFAX and Sam Leffler's
> TIFF libraries cope with it? Many of Microsoft's print drivers are
> apparently pretty broken, a frequent source of difficulty for HylaFAX.
> And Sam *WROTE* TIFF. Let *HIS* program deal with the transformation
> on
> the HylaFAX server.
> 
> [Christoph Stotz]  Because these documents we print are a bit
> "difficult". There
> are User-defined Fonts, included images (also Tiff´s), Word-featured
> stuff like
> Textart and Textboxes and so on. We already tried printing in PS to
> hylafax but
> most of the documents came not out 1:1. Mostly a Font-Substitution
> Problem, but
> some things like Textboxes simply doesn´t work when Printing from
> Word.
> 
> The 1:1 aspect is really important to our customers. Infact if we
> generate some errors
> the cost of the mailing will not be paid. 
> 
> On the other Hand it is much faster directly generating the TIFF´s on
> the Windows machine. 
> You do not need to convert anything and Postscript would be much
> bigger. For a two-page
> fax you got 200K Postscript without any Problem. Generating 1600 faxes
> you got 320M to
> generate, shuffle over the net to the hylafax server, convert, fax
> out, and - archive! 
> 
> Generating 20K of TIFF seems a little bit easier.
> 
> Even though your faxes may look a lot better, just because of the
> higher
> resolution....
> 
> [Christoph Stotz]  Indeed. But some of our customers don´t won´t to
> pay the higher
> transmission time!
> 
> I hope the points I made help you...
> 
> [Christoph Stotz]  Thank you for your suggestion any case! You
> respond-time is really low!
> 
> 
> Sincerly yours,
> 
> 
> Christoph Stotz