Re: [hylafax-users] Text Formatting

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:41:29AM -0800, Waseem Aslam wrote:
> I am using hylafax to send faxes , i have created a
> web based control panel which allows uers to type in
> the message of the fax in a textarea, however the
> formatiing on the fax differs according to what type
> the fax machine is on the other end 

Yeah, that'll happen.

> anyway to set widths, for the number of characters etc

You need to specify options to the textfmt program, which builds
postscript page files out of text.  If you're not *calling* that
program directly, you might need to.

We really need to come up with a slightly more powerful substitute for
that; I've been planning to look into the hp2pbm package, which is
*supposed* to be an HP PCL interpreter that puts out PBM bitmap files;
it's on my laptop but I keep forgetting to unpack it.  I'll try to get
to it this weekend.  It should be quite a bit more flavorful.

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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