Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax and PdF attachments

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michel R Vaillancourt wrote:

> 	Hi, Lee.  The gremlin turned out to be having two verisons of
> HylaFax installed;  plus/non-plus.  So now that I am getting the HF+ in the
> loop as I thought I was, PDF handling is working correctly.

Good to know.  Thanks for the follow-up.

> Is there a
> recipe/how-to that you know of for handling MS Word attachments?

When I have to do MS Word conversions on the Linux side of things I tend 
to use antiword to do that... although I do suspect that OpenOffice 
would yield better results.  I tell my customers to not submit Word 
docs, but if they do then I will do my "best" to handle them... and that 
means that whatever degree of acceptibility antiword give them, well, 
that's what I do.  See your typerules file for an example entry.  It 
should look like this:

# MS Office (Word) conversion using antiword. Install antiword
# and enable this if you want it.  It may produce imperfect
# renderings, but they're better than nothing, perhaps.
#0      short           0xd0cf          ps      antiword -p letter -m 
8859-1.txt %i > %o
0       short           0xd0cf          error   Microsoft Word Document 
support not configured

So disable the "error" line, and enable the "ps" line with antiword 
(after you get antiword installed).


> The
> non-plus MIME Converters approach doesn't seem to be firing.

It's certainly more tricky to get going right.

> 	Excellent software, btw...  It Just Works.
>  

Thank you, that's the goal.  :-)

Lee.


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