Re: [hylafax-users] Document conversion using typerules

[Amin Mozafari <amin85ir@xxxxxxxxx>]

After some trial and error I found out that FaxModify is not exactly the best place to put document conversion scripts.
First of all when I submit a fax job through an external client the job description file records the associated documents as
data:0::docq/doc181.ps.118
rather than
postscript:0::docq/...
This means that the original document is not recognised as any of the native hylafax formats. (Notice that issuing Form PS command prior to submission does not change anything.)
Now what happens is that none of the ps2fax, tiff2fax or pdf2fax scripts are called and hence etc/FaxModify never gets called either.

Could you explain how hylafax verifies submitted documents and if there is a hook to inject my conversion script in the early stages of processing jobs?

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Dominique dHotman <dominique@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Amin,

I've attached a copy of the FaxModify that we created.  Hope this helps.

Regards, Dominique

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Amin Mozafari <amin85ir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a question about writing FaxModify scripts. FaxModify is supposed to
> provide a means of pre-processing documents before transmission but how can
> I get the original document path in the fist place? Could some one please
> clarify what parameters are supplied to the script. It does seem though that
> the script only receives a "ps" parameter but no document path or job id.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Dominique dHotman <dominique@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> The best place to do this is by creating a script in etc/FaxModify.
>> This script will run every time a fax job is submitted to the server,
>> regardless of which submission channel is used.
>> The first part of the script could do something like check if the
>> document's submitted are candidates for conversion and if matched positively
>> then run your conversion process.
>> All the best
>> Dominique
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Amin Mozafari <amin85ir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok. But I need to emulate sendfax document conversion capabilities. How
>>> can
>>> I write a script that gets called when a new job is submitted?
>>> I am thinking of using jobcontrol to do the conversion by replacing the
>>> job
>>> documents in docq. Can you give me any advice?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:19 AM
>>> To: Amin Mozafari
>>> Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Document conversion using typerules
>>>
>>> Amin Mozafari wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Apparently, sendfax first converts then submits. I wonder if the same
>>> > behavior can be extended to other clients. Is there a trick to get
>>> > HylaFAX to automatically convert whatever is thrown at it using
>>> > typerules? I really need this feature because I need to offload the
>>> > document conversion process to the HylaFAX machine.
>>> >
>>>
>>> hfaxd only accepts Postscript, PDF, TIFF, and sometimes PCL.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Lee.
>>>
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