Re: [hylafax-users] Should i converto to PostScript or PDF?

[Mark Ratering <techsupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A J Stiles wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 June 2005 20:08, Mark Ratering wrote:
>  
>
> > I am going to be sending faxes from a web based order system.  When the
> > web button is pushed, i will take the form information and use it to
> > cell the faxsend command.  The fax that is being sent will start as a
> > dynamically generated HTML page then be converted into either PDF or
> > PostScript.  Should i convert the HTML to PDF or to PostScript?  What
> > format will HylaFax handle the most gracefully?
> >    
>
> Use PostScript, because (1) it's a standard format and (2) there's already a 
> command to do the job, html2ps.  "man html2ps" will display the manpage.  
> First of all you probably want to generate a html test page in a file; then 
> you can experiment with this.  You want to be able to pipe the html2ps output 
> straight into sendfax, so something like
> cat test.php |html2ps -g |sendfax -d$faxno
> but you probably will need to play with the options.  Once you have a command 
> pipeline that just works, then you can use that in your script instead of 
> outputting to a file.  In Perl, you would use something like
> open FH, "|html2ps -g |sendfax -d$faxno";
> or in PHP,
> $fh = popen("html2ps -g |sendfax -d$faxno", "w");
>
> When I did something like this, I just placed the HTML code that makes up the 
> fax into a scalar variable; then it was ready to pipe through html2ps and 
> sendfax and just as easy to display on stdout.
>
> AJS
>
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There is also a command (htmldoc) that can do a direct conversion to 
PDF.  Postscript looks like it may be the way to go.  I think i will 
develop scripts for both so i can quickly switch is something goes wrong.

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