Re: [hylafax-users] Integrating HylaFAX with Formtrap

[Andreas Hoedle <hoedle@kwsoft.de>]

Nigel Allen schrieb:
> 
> Greetings
> 
> A client of mine uses a product called Formtrap to produce all of their
> "good looking" repors for customer consumption (ie invoices,
> statements, purchase orders etc).
> 
> Formtrap uses (AFAIK) HP-PCL to produce these reports, effectively
> merging together ascii data and a template file to produce the finished
> article.
> 
> My task is to take what is produced on the printer and send it out via
> HylaFAX. We have already done this with ascii output but are a little
> at a loss as to where we should start with this one.
> 
> Suggestions please?
> 
> Nigel.
 


Taken from a posting from Lee some time ago :


> For all the searching I've done, I've found a number of commercial
> PCL-to-whatever converters.  I don't imagine that many of you would be
> interested in them.
> 
> However, I did find one free PCL-to-Postscript conversion utility called
> lj2ps.  In fact, it was discussed 18 months ago on this list.
> 
> See: http://www.hylafax.org/archive/1999-08/msg00372.php
> 
> The home page of this software is:
> 
> http://www-wisconsin.cern.ch/~lishka/progs/lj2ps/lj2ps_intro.php
> 
> As it was developed by the author for BSD it *does* compile just fine on
> OpenBSD, and it seems to function just fine afterwards with his tests, but
> it does not work very well at all (because of missing function
> implementations) when trying to convert PCL files made by my LaserJet 6L
> Windows printer driver.
> 
> Unfortunately, make fails on both RedHat Linux 7.0 and 6.2.  It's probably
> a Makefile configuration error, and I imagine a smarter person could easily
> fix it, but I'm not keen enough to make it work.  The BSD binary might work
> in Linux using kernel-level ABI or iBCS - I haven't tried it, though.
> 
> The copyleft is FSF GNU standard, so have at it, folks, if you like.
> 
> The project seems to be an abandoned child since at least 1997.  So, if one
> or more of you are ambitious enough, I imagine that the author wouldn't
> mind giving permission to someone else to continue, control, and distribute
> development if you were to ask nicely enough (if the FSF GNU license
> doens't already grant you that permission - but the author may give you his
> blessing).
> 
> As for me, I'm quite pleased to know that I do not need to convert PCL into
> anything.
> 
> Lee.
> 

The key-point is to convert pcl -> postscript. Try to tweak Formtrap to
produce postscript would be the best solution.

-- 
Andreas Hödle (Systemadministration)

Kühn & Weyh Software GmbH
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79110 Freiburg

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