[hylafax-users] for those who wish to fax MS Word docs...

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After another round of nagging from my customers to be able to fax 
Microsoft Word documents directly, I have revisited the small list of 
popular (and free) Word-to-Postscript converters.

First I looked at wvWare (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/), as I've done 
before.  It doesn't look like their development has progressed much 
since the last time I looked at it, but I retested it anyway.  Seems 
about the same as before: it (wvPS) converts most documents with lots of 
trouble with rather unpleasant results.  But, if you don't care for 
formatting, and if the recipient is tolerant of the appearance, wvWare's 
stuff may work for you.  It doesn't satisfy me (although I was going to 
say that it was better than nothing before I ran into antiword).

I hadn't ever looked at antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/) 
before.  antiword was much easier to install than wvWare and the end 
result is much more clean and less error-prone than wvPS.  The output is 
still not perfect, but it just may make my customers happy, and so I'm 
happy to keep them happy with it.

Here are the typerules entries for those interested.  Uncomment the line 
that you wish to use.

# MS Office (Word) conversion using wvWare tools.  These may produce
# imperfect renderings, but they're better than nothing, perhaps.
#
#0    short        0xd0cf        ps    /usr/local/bin/wvPS "%i" %o
#0    short        0xd0cf        ps    antiword -p letter -m 8859-1.txt 
"%i" > %o

Of course, this is only of benefit to HylaFAX's sendfax users.  Those of 
you who use other clients will need some other way, I suspect.  At the 
moment HylaFAX faxq does not utilize typerules.

Lee.


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