flexfax: HylaFAX with Macs, CGI or MacFlex?

[David Rouse <drouse@arlington.newsargus.com>]

I've been investigating using HylaFAX in a Macintosh-based newspaper 
environment. We do a lot of ad design work that has to be faxed out for 
approvals and I think that HF would make things easier on the staff. I'm 
working with 4.1b2 now -- and it does work, thanks for the encouragement 
to keep at it.

However I seem to be having some problems with MacFlex and HylaFAX. The 
spooled TIFF permissions are set in such a way that they can't be 
converted to faxes (the 'Could not reopen converted document to verify 
format' error). Plus the old protocol seems to have problems of its own.

I haven't started downloading all the CGIs, but I think that a CGI that 
allowed file uploads would work very well for us. I guess what I want is 
to allow a staff member to fill in the telephone number and cover sheet 
notes on an HTML form, then from the same form select a gif or jpg of an 
ad to be faxed (does HF do PDFs?). Do any of the current gateways do 
this?

Otherwise, if anyone is using HylaFAX in a Mac environment and has any 
helpful tips, please send them my way. And if anyone needs help getting 
HF running on Solaris 2.5.1, I think I've hit every pothole and gotten 
through it.

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David Rouse
Network Manager
Goldsboro News-Argus