Re: flexfax: RH5.1 on i386, doesn't like latest version

[darren@hylafax.org]

In message <199901051804.SAA22808@hewes.icl.ox.ac.uk>, darren@hylafax.org write
s:
>In message <3691FC21.3CADF527@bvm.com.au>, Ben Donohue writes:
>>hi, what do i do?
>>
>>i have RH 5.1, i386.
>>when i load the rpm -i hylafax-4.rpm the error is...
>>failed dependencies: ghostscript-fonts-std >= 5.02 is needed by
>>hylafax-4.0pl2-3rh5
>>so i download the fonts but how do i install them? they look exactly
>>like the fonts already in the system.
>>dont know how to upgrade the fonts.
>
>You need the new ghostscript RPMS, not just the fonts tarball. But even this 
>is out of date at the moment. The recommended procedure is to head to
>
>	http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
>
>and grab:
>	ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/gs550/linux/ghostscript-5.50-2.i386
>.rpm
>

I'm just following up to myself here . . . sorry!

It has been brought to my attention that some of you might have to pay for the 
Aladdin distribution if you use it commercially. I'm not a lawyer but this may 
be the case upon reading their license.

If you're worried about this, please see the following web site:

	http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.uk/html/ghostscript.html

which should tell you all you need to know in order to fulfill the
dependencies in the current RPM with ghostscript-5.10, distributed with the
GNU General Public License, which allows free use, and free copying and
redistribution under certain conditions (including, in some cases, commercial
distribution). The requirements are also in the RedHat contrib/ archives,
incidentally.

-Darren

Envelope-to: dnicker@ermine.ox.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 16:53:21 -0800
From: Michael Sorens <mikeso@pogo.wv.tek.com>
Organization: Tektronix, Inc -- Wilsonville, OR, USA
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Subject: flexfax: questions on HylaFax
Sender: owner-flexfax@celestial.com

I am interested in your HylaFax software, but just a couple questions:

What I want to do is just this:
(1) Receive incoming faxes on a Sun/Unix workstation; I note your site
says these will be stored as TIFF/F.
(2) Convert FAX to text (via OCR software...?)
(3) Convert FAX to GIF or PDF.
(4) Send email to a specific group of users that the fax has been
received
and is available in either text or GIF.

Do you have any pointers to Unix OCR software?
Do you have any pointers to a graphic converter that could handle TIFF/F
format?
(Failing that, your pointers to tiffview for Windows and viewfax for
Unix should suffice.)
Can HylaFax send email as in (4) above?
Finally, is there a version of HylaFax that runs on Windows rather than
Unix?

I'm looking for an EASY way to cut down on hard copy of frequent
multi-page faxes that we receive, and then distribute by making many
paper copies... it looks like your package will do the trick.

Michael Sorens
Software Engineer
Tektronix Inc.
Color Printing & Imaging Division