RE: flexfax: some1 knows how to let sendfax to send a ms word doc ??

[Greg Breland <gbreland@healthtech.net>]

You do understand that Microsoft's Word 97 DOC format is not based on any
open standard.  It is a proprietry format that only MS Word can render
correctly.  Even the converters that do exist are only going to convert
simple Word documents.

My recomendation is to fax the Word document from the client that created
the document.  I use WHFC as my Windows client.  After you setup the client
fax software, all you have to do is print to the fax server and it will fax
the document for you.

If you just need to fax this one document and do not want to go through the
trouble of setting up WHFC, you can setup a postscript printer, again on the
windows machine with Word97, to print to a file instead of a device.  When
you go into Word and print to this printer, it will create a .ps file in the
spool directory you setup.  You can then run this file through the ps2fax
utility that comes with HylaFax and you can send this file with the send
command.

Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: Luca Domenella [mailto:luca@satori.it]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:40 AM
To: flexfax@sgi.com
Subject: flexfax: some1 knows how to let sendfax to send a ms word doc
??


Hi all,

  i have this problem: i need to send a Microsoft Word 97 document using
sendfax.

  when i type: sendfax -n -m -d 07347827836 test.doc
  i got this error: test.doc: Can not determine file type

  how can i force sendfax to convert the .doc file and send it ???
  im not a ghostscript user so if you will answer me to use ghostscript to
convert it and then
  send it, please.... tell me whats the syntax to convert the file....

  but i think it should be another way to let sendfax convert and send the
file.

  TIA,

Luca