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Re: [hylafax-users] Document conversion using typerules



> The rest of the user base isn't going to be motivated on this because it's
working just fine 
> for them as it is now in the "seriously flawed approach".

You are right. It is working fine for them because they are hardly using it
at all. They rely on alternative solutions.
Lee I completely understand your points and I am not going to take this any
further. When there is no demand why bother wasting time on it. It's open
source software after all.


-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:43 AM
To: Amin Mozafari
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Document conversion using typerules

Amin Mozafari wrote:
> 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!

Point taken, and your statements are duly noted.  By all means, you may 
be completely right.  But you would be the first person that I've come 
across in ten years of HylaFAX-ing who wanted to use the "DATA" function 
to employ server-side configurable-typed document conversion.  There 
have been those who wanted document conversion done server-side, but as 
far as I'm aware they were all eventually satisfied by existing 
mechanisms with the exceptions of PDF and PCL support which were added 
to HylaFAX by user contribution.

So I invite you to do the same.  You've expressed a desire for a new 
feature.  Now you're invited to follow-up that desire with some code 
work or to go an hire someone to do it for you.  The rest of the user 
base isn't going to be motivated on this because it's working just fine 
for them as it is now in the "seriously flawed approach".

Thanks,

Lee.


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