Re: [hylafax-users] Document conversion using typerules

["Amin Mozafari" <amin85ir@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe I didn't come across or whatever... I am back to square one. Maybe you
should seriously consider adding an extension mechanism to hfaxd to allow
handling of the so called "DATA" documents. I believe sendfax + typerules is
a seriously flawed approach towards automatic document conversion. Perhaps
anybody willing to take this route should submit their faxes from the server
machine!


-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 5:56 AM
To: Amin Mozafari
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Document conversion using typerules

Amin Mozafari wrote:
> 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.

Well, I did tell you before...

 >>> From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
<mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
 >>> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:19 AM
....
 >>> hfaxd only accepts Postscript, PDF, TIFF, and sometimes PCL.

> 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?

The behavior may vary a bit depending on what version of HylaFAX you're 
using.  (In HylaFAX+ there is a deliberate effort to ensure that when a 
client specifies PDF or Postscript that the uploaded document is exactly 
that.)

Basically what's supposed to happen is that the client connects to the 
server and indicates the type of file it's going to submit, and then it 
submits it.  The server is supposed to check things out and then 
eventually faxq picks it up and sends it and uses the client-supplied 
information in the q-file to do the formatting, etc.

The HylaFAX server only accepts Postscript, PDF, TIFF, and sometimes 
PCL.  If your document is not one of those then the client needs to 
convert it first to be one of those.

Thanks,

Lee.


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