Re: [hylafax-users] MS Outlook as Hylafax client

["Chris Weiss" <cweiss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Joshua Kinard <jkinard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of George H
>
>
> > I do the same ... plain text only and/or PDF, we tell our employees
>  > not to use HTML formatted emails when sending faxes. And if they want
>  > fancy stuff we encourage them to use OpenOffice and export to PDF.. or
>  > they can use our "PDF Printer" we installed where they can print
>  > anything out to a PDF.
>  >
>  > It's not so limited when you think about it and most people get used
>  > to it after a short period of time.
>
>  Hah, that's the hard part for me, telling people to "get used to it".  They expect a certain level of functionality and ease for some reason, so emulating that is proving to be tricky (but interesting).

it's not so much "get used to it" but "use the right tool for the
job".  fax is paper document, email isn't.  using email to design a
paper document is fundamentally flawed tool usage.  email design tools
give you no concept of pages boundaries, borders, breaks, etc.
html2ps might have acceptable output most of the time, but if one
really cares what the output looks like, one should be using a tool
designed for making paper documents.


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