Re: [hylafax-users] HylaFax Client

["Chris Weiss" <cweiss@xxxxxxxxx>]

well, in that case the docs on your website are outdated.  the
examples specifically use a PS printer and send a ps file.

On 9/25/07, Rui Santos <rsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  Chris Weiss wrote:
>  On 9/25/07, Rui Santos <rsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  So, it has an API and, does not require the document to be in postscript
> format.
>
>  that's a pretty loose definition. the "api" here is an OLE object,
> and it requires a postscript printer driver to be setup. your
> application must first print to the printer and specify an output
> postscript file, then you use OLE to tell the running WHFC instance to
> send the postscript file as a fax.
>
>  Not true. I'm not the programmer of the application, but I'm the guy who
> set up the HylaFAX server. The only thing that the server gets is a PDF file
> and not a postscript file. The HylaFAX clearly states:
>
>  HylaFAX[28724]: What we have here is a PDF file.
>
>  So a PDF file actually gets sent through WHFC. ( Hope I'm right on this one
> )
>
>  Also, the WHFC's OLE is registered during installation so, you do not need
> WHFC running. Once you call the OLE, WHFC starts automatically. That is the
> setup we use on our WHFC clients: no printer and do not need to start WHFC
> at boot/login.
>
>
>  the drawbacks are that WHFC has to be running, and you have to
> maintain yet another installed printer on each system.
>  Not true. Since you use only PDF files, you do not need a postscript
> printer. I also set up a few clients, and never installed any postscript
> printer.
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>
>  I am not sure
> there's a better way to do it though, outside of making your app
> output in postscript or using a 3rd part app to convert stuff to
> postscript or tiff
>
>  It's a Delphi component to convert it to PDF. But text to pdf converters
> are widely available. And a lot of them are free too.
>
>  But, if you really want to keep it as simple as it can, you can always make
> a "server" application that receive data from you clients, in text format.
> Then, at the server you can convert it to postscript by issuing:
>
>  (just an example)
>  textfmt -fCourier-Bold -p11bp -U textfiletosend > psfiletosend
>  sendfax -n -m -h localhost -d <dial number> psfiletosend
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>  Well, hope it helps.
>
>  Rui
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