Re: [hylafax-users] Two simple HylaFAX Questions

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff St Louis wrote:
>    1. Does HylaFAX support batch faxing in the same manner as VSI-FAX?
>       What I mean is, currently when I run a batch fax job from my
>       character based accounting system, I send all jobs to one big
>       file to be parsed by VSI-FAX based on embedded tags. The file is
>       parsed into many individual faxes and sent to all my different
>       clients. I just set my software to send the desired
>       tags/parameters I need, and VSI-FAX takes care of the rest…
>
> I currently have my own little batch processing BASH script I wrote to 
> take care of all of this, because I didn’t seem to find what I was 
> looking for online… I found plenty about batch faxing the same 
> document to multiple different numbers, however that was NOT what I 
> was looking for… All documents differ and are sent to all different 
> numbers.

It sounds like your definition of "batching" is like a fax-merge. Taking 
a fax template, populating it automatically with information and faxing 
the result. No, HylaFAX doesn't have anything like this natively... but 
I'm guessing that it would be easy to script up.

>    2. And this brings me to my 2^nd question, does anyone know if
>       HylaFax plans to support PCL to FAX conversions, now that
>       Artiflex has released GhostPDL under the GPL as oppose to the
>       old APL they had the previous releases under? Is anyone
>       currently working on such a feature? Even Beta?

It is mostly in-place, and it wouldn't be extremely hard to get PCL 
working, it's just that you're the first person to bring this up in a 
very long time.

Thanks,

Lee.


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