Difference between revisions of "Handbook:Advanced Server Configuration:Faxing Third-Party Document Formats"

HylaFAX includes native support for faxing PDF, Postscript and TIFF document formats, but is easily extended to support nearly any common document format through a conversion engine know as 'typerules'.

MS Office / OpenOffice Documents

The following procedure was initially contributed by Madhawa Jayanath on the hylafax-users mailing list:

Install apps & libs

yum install openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-headless openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-graphicfilter openoffice.org-pyuno openoffice.org-xsltfilter openoffice.org-math
yum install poppler poppler-utils poppler-devel

Download "jodconverter"

cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/jodconverter/JODConverter/2.2.2/jodconverter-2.2.2.zip?use_mirror=biznetnetworks
unzip jodconverter-2.2.2.zip

Create "doc2ps" Script

nano /usr/sbin/doc2ps

#/bin/bash

java -jar /usr/src/jodconverter-2.2.2/lib/jodconverter-cli-2.2.2.jar -f pdf $1
pdftops -paper A4 ${1%\.*}.pdf $2
rm -f ${1%\.*}.pdf

chmod 755 /usr/sbin/doc2ps

Create a script for starting OpenOffice headless

(Please find the location of "soffice.bin" and replace the path "/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/")

nano /usr/sbin/runoffice
/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/soffice.bin "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -norestore  nofirststartwizard -nologo -headless  &
chmod 755 /usr/sbin/runoffice

Start OpenOffice headless

runoffice

Test with a M$ Doc file

Upload a doc file to /usr/src/

doc2ps /usr/src/mytest.doc /usr/src/mytest.ps

If this works you can see "mytest.ps" in /usr/src

Add M$ DOC support to hylafax

nano /etc/hylafax/typerules

0      short           0xd0cf          ps      doc2ps %i %o

Send M$ doc file as a FAX

sendfax -n -d 02xxxxxxx /usr/src/mytest.doc

That's it!