Re: [hylafax-users] Mainpine, v.34, color faxing and Hylafax debate continued...

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hallager wrote:
> > Lee has expressed a desire to implement colour send but without the
> > financial support of the community I doubt that he will be able to
> > complete this work in the near future.  Mainpine already actively
> > supports HylaFAX development and will continue to do so.
> >
> > Unfortunately, colour fax is a niche for many users which is why you've
> > had little response I guess.
> I personally think the little response has more to do with the expected 'free' 
> nature of Open Source Software.

Actually my "lack of response" has everything to do with the lack of 
desire for color fax sending among my clients.  Color fax reception was 
developed (somewhat on a whim) with them in mind, but as JPEG faxes are 
*MUCH* bigger than JBIG or MMR faxes and thus that *MUCH* longer to 
receive - in every case they have instructed me to disable color support 
in their configuration.

It's been years now... and the reason I haven't gotten around to 
implementing color fax sending in "hobby interests" is that to do it 
right it's a comparatively big project.  It involves learning JPEG, 
libjpeg, and implementing proper ITULAB JPEG support in libtiff (without 
patching libjpeg).  I just haven't had that much "hobby time" for such a 
project for a long time.  I have to put my time to where my clients' 
needs are.

Thanks,

Lee.


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