Re: [hylafax-users] can hylafax handle colored faxes?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.08.27 00:19 Peter Schlaf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got two faxservers, both under LINUX SLES8 with hylafax-4.2.0
> (tiff-0.3.7alpha,
> capi4hylafax-01.02.02) and ISDN card AVM Fritz! PCI 2.0 .
> Both servers are working fine. No problems with sending, receiving so
> far. But ...
>
> when I send a colored fax from one faxserver to the other, I always
> get
> this fax as a perfekt TIF file but without color.

Does capi4hylafax support color faxing?  In any case, HylaFAX doesn't.

> For "printing" to the sending faxserver I use driver Apple Color LW
> 12/660 PS
> and the resulting doc01.ps under /var/spool/hylafax/docq is indeed in
> color
> (verified with ghostscript viewer). The TIF file on the receiving
> faxserver under
> /var/spool/hylafax/recvq is black/white (colordepth 1, Irfan Viewer).
>
> So there is some conversion done by default obviously and I would like
> to change
> this in order to send and receive colored faxes in the future. The
> hylafax
> documentation seems to have no solution on that and Google has no
> satisfying answer either.
> Can anybody here tell me how to solve this problem?

A lot of work (probably not extremely hard, though) would need to be 
done to implement colored faxing.

Lee.

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