[hylafax-users] Fax server without ghostscript ?

[Luc Pardon <hylafax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

  I have a need to setup a HylaFAX server (4.1.8, i.e. latest) on RedHat
Linux (6.2 - yep) without installing Ghostscript on the box. That is a
given.

  Currently the focus is on outgoing faxes. Clients would be - at least
- Linux, ideally also Win (NT+2K) and OS/2. I'd use Samba (print +
sendfax) to serve the non-Linux clients, so I won't have to install
anything extra on them. That means Postscript input, but the fax server
can't handle that without gs. These are assumptions.

  I'm looking at two setups:

  1) let the fax client convert to TIFF before submitting to the server.

  This should be possible by tweaking the typerules file (maybe to call
ps2fax) and having Ghostscript on the client(s).

  I could install such an HylaFAX client on a Samba server for the
non-Linux boxes.

  Problem is that the notes at the end of the typerules man page seem to
say that it's better to submit PS to the server. 

  2) setup a second HylaFAX server, with Ghostscript and all, on another
box, let it handle the conversion to TIFF (possibly by tweaking the
typerules file) and forward to the first server.

  Problem is I can't seem to find how to forward from the second fax
server to the first. I looked at the SendFaxCmdS1 param to replace
faxsend by something else. I thought of using sendfax for the "something
else", but then I suppose I'd have to parse the queue file and extract
the param values to reconstruct the sendfax command line.


  I've been looking at the docs and the mailing lists at hylafax.org and
in Google, but all I found was a discussion on forwarding and proxies
that seems to imply that this is not an option yet, and some other stuff
that seems to imply that ghostscript on the server is taken for granted.

  I've never used HylaFAX before, so I might be barking up the wrong
tree. Before I dive in and look at the source and hack around and find
out that I've been wasting my time, I thought I'd ask if anybody out
there has some ideas off the top of their heads. 

  Thanks in advance,

  Luc Pardon

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