Re: [hylafax-users] postscript woes on win2K

[Jev <jev@ecad.org>]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:18:05AM -0600, Lee Howard wrote:
 
> As Giulio has said, this is a common problem.  Sambafax suffers from the
> assumption that there is only one way to write Postscript - a very flawed
> assumption.  In most cases, however, trying various drivers or applications
> has proven some successful arrangement - seems like a waste of time to me.
> 
> Feel like recoding the sambafax awk routine?  A fix wouldn't be hard... the
> fix would be to *not* parse FAX-NR directly from the Postscript file itself
> but rather from Ghostscript's output using ps2txt... if that makes sense.
> 
> Otherwise my suggestion would be to use Cypheus, WHFC, or some other
> fill-in-the-form client.

Yup, I came to the same conclusion, and I hacked in a few lines to
convert the postscript to ascii, and then awk out the Fax-Nr string,
which worked.

I'll try and clean it up a bit and post it here when I get back to work
on Monday.

I didn't want to use any 'fill-in-the-form' client, as I don't want to
maintain anything on those dreaded windows boxes, the less that runs on
them the better IMHO :)

Thank you all for your help,

-Emil J.V. Bj�rsell 


> 
> Lee.
> 

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