Re: [hylafax-users] Newbie question

[Jeff Herring <jeffh@sldsi.com>]

The evil LAB system is designed to interface to PCL printers at remote
locations that are called via a MODEM. i.e. The LAB system uses a MODEM
to call another MODEM which has a PCL printer attached to it.
After connecting the programmer does the following...
1) - sends PCL Macro (argh!) to set up page overlay
2) - sends PCL
3) - sends PCL use Macro (to overlay)
4) - sends page eject (prints page)
5) - goto 2) if more pages...

The requirement is to not have to change the generation of the PCL as this 
would
tax the programmers too much...

The PCL being sent is fairly rudimentary, primarily just small raster bit maps
and characters positioned absolutely on the page.

I managed to get hp2pbm to compile on my RH 7 system however, I can't seem 
to convert
the pbm to anything that sendfax likes.

I would be happy to distill the 47 little sticky notes on the wall to 
something intelligent
when I'm satisfied that it is actually working.

Yes...I've even got it to send PDF files, however a couple of my examples 
blew up with
stack underflow messages...I'll look into that when I get further along.


At 07:24 PM 2/6/01 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:12:08PM -0500, Jeff Herring wrote:
> > This question appears to be asked but never answered in the archives.
>
>Yep.
>
> > We have requirements to pass HP PCL files from a LAB system to HylaFax.
> > I have tried various incarnations of hp2pbm, lj2pbm, etc...With no luck.
>
>Damn.  I've had those sitting around to try, but hadn't gotten to it.
>What level of PCL is your system generating?
>
> > Does anyone know of a solution for converting from PCL to PS or TIFF?
>
>Yeah, there's a commercial package that's over a grand.  :-{
>
> > Flame on if this is an inappropriate question...
>
>Not at all.  Can your system generate anything else?
>
> > Cancer causing asbestos underwear has been applied!
>
>Switch to Nomex.
>
> > BTW I have implemented the following with minimal problems:
> > RH7 iso image from linuxiso.org
> >   hylafax-4.1beta2-2rh7
> >   ghostscript-5.50-7
> >   ghostscript-fonts-5.50-3
> >   libtiff-devel-3.5.5-7
> >   netpbm-9.5-5
> >   netpbm-progs-9.5-5
> >   modified (for RH7) SST driver RPM provided by Equinox Tech Support
> >
> > on a P3-933 with 384Meg and Equinox 64-port SST adapter connected to
> > 16 Multi-Tech MT2834BR Rack MODEMs.
>
>Youch.  Any interesting datapoints on the implementation to add to the
>howto?
>
> > Sending plain text and PS files works fine.
>
>You'll have noted the recent PDF support patches..
>
> > And it only took me about 20 hours to get it working(!) which
> > included the requisite 3 re-installs of RH7.
>
><chuckle>
>
>Indeed, if you can find time to write up a page or two on where the
>pinch spots were, I'm sure Lee would be happy to add it to his
>excellent howto...
>
>Cheers,
>-- jra
>--
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