Re: flexfax: How to set HylaFax to act as a network printer?

[William Suetholz <wsuetholz@centonline.com>]

You might have problems with the Win95 Postscript printer drivers not
keeping your marker string together.  I use a similar mechanism to
load up faxback pages, and often my markers will be on seperate lines
with positioning commands in between the characters.

Bill Suetholz

Constantin Teodorescu wrote:
> 
> Nico Garcia wrote:
> >
> > The UNIX print spooling mechanism is quite distinct (though similar in
> > form) to the UNIX HylaFAX spool.
> 
> I was imagine the following mechanism:
> 
> All the workstations (Linux and W95) are configured to print to a
> network printer with postscript capabilities.
> On the server, the documents that must be sent ar coming in a Postscript
> format, Ok ?
> 
> That means that a particular text, let's say :
> 
> <HYLAFAX-PHONE-NUMBER=xxxxxxxxx>    (the same font, size and
> characteristics)
> 
> would be found in the postscript file as clear text. Some simple filters
> based on sed or a perl script could extract the phone number from the
> file. After that, the file is processed by HylaFax who is rendering him
> and send it.
> 
> > The Wintel print spooling mechanism is a convuleted anti-Christ symbol.
> 
> With the above described mechanism, the W95 workstations would print in
> the same way. We declare a Postscript printer shared on the server and
> send files to it.
> 
> Am I missing something simple that would make this not possible ?
> 
> > The UNIX boxes are a bit different: there are so many ways to send print
> > jobs to the print spool, each slightly different, that you've have to
> > think hard about how to determine the fax numer, comments, etc. for each
> > outgoing fax job.
> 
> Yes. I think that this could be the problem. But could it be solved as I
> say ?
> 
> --
> Constantin Teodorescu
> FLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA