Re: [hylafax-users] CUPS support -- is it there?

[Karl Schmidt <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> It is an enourmous problem to start a gui from CUPS (in any kind of
> normal-works-100%-of-the-time way).  Even if you are on the same machine
> there are a myriad of security layers to traverse.  Unless there is
> someway to hack up a PPD file to make 'fax number' a job attribute and
> then dig that out again at the server - I don't even know if that is
> possible.

I've been using Hylafax for years - (more than 6?) with out any problems with 
WHFC (after countless nightmares with M$ based fax packages). Now we are moving 
seats to Linux I need a way to print to FAX.  Sounds like the workaround is to 
print to a ps file and then use gfax for now (wonder if that works - no recent 
updates ... yuck).


> Honestly I think they all stink, 

Sort of what I was finding ...

> but last I checked setting up a fax
> printer in Open Office was trivial - it just invokes sendfax.  Beyond
> that there is gFax but I don't know how maintained it is currently.

- will it talk to a hylafax server? .. Not from what I can tell.

> If you are really interested and have a programmer happy I'd bet D-BUS
> is the way to solve the communications problem - off the top of my head,

D-bus is still young - may take some time before everyone gets on d-bus.


Anyone have any luck with a web based client? That might work ..


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