flexfax: RE: TIFF driver

["Bernd Proissl" <news@proissl.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claas Hilbrecht [mailto:Claas.Hilbrecht@linum.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 12:14 PM
> To: news@proissl.de; flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: Re: TIFF driver was: RE: flexfax: Design for a portable Java
> hylafax clients: iwantyour opinions, please!
>
>
> > > Also on the "drivers generating TIFF" front. I know that the driver
> > > for jfax.com does just that: it creates a tiff file then calls your
> > the creation of the driver seems to be realy difficult,
> > this is what if found after a short usenet search. Probably therefore
> > there is no free printer driver.
> >
> > There is supposed to be one on MSDN but i only found some class
> > Descriptions.
> > It is not clear for me if this is a complete driver (TIFF is explicitly
> > named as one of other "languages") and how to compile/install it. I will
> > not have the time to do this. Maybe some else has experience here?
>
> I've already start working on a new HylaFAX (Windows) Client that will
> contain a "real" printer driver that generates TIFF Files. So I can say
> that you're right. Creating a real printer driver is somewhat
> complicated and you need to install four different DDK (win95, win98.
> winnt and win2k) to support all plattforms. And the sample you
> mentioned in the DDK is far from complete. Currently we use a HP-PCL
> Converter to print from windows applications with much better results
> than using a postscript driver.
>
> Note that this client we're working on is in early beta stage and is
> only in german so far. We will upload a web site shortly (within this
> week) at http://www.bugfax.com where one can get a first impression.
>

Do you plan to separate the printer driver and the hylafax stuff?
I myself would be very glad :-)

If yes, maybe we can talk about the technical details how to connect other
apps to your driver?

Bernd


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