Re: flexfax: HylaFAX with Macs, CGI or MacFlex?

[Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>]

I did some digging at Apple and found the following link for PPD creation:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1068.html

Perhaps we (David and I) could both look into some more and see what we come
up with. Maybe we could collaborate on this project if the product is to be
useful to both of us (and maybe others).

Cheers
Ari

on 10/12/99 11:22 pm, David Rouse at drouse@arlington.newsargus.com wrote:

> As to sending  file from Macs, I'll certainly look into SusSEFax. And
> the comment from Maniatis has got me thinking. If it is possible to hack
> a printer discription file to allow free-text printer options instead of
> pop-up lists you could embed things like the sender's name, comments and
> phone number in a postscript print job. You can set up any Unix machine
> as an LPR printer and modern Macs can use LPR printers without
> additional software, so this solution would involve less software than
> the fax driver solution and would allow users to keep the same printer
> UI (and driver software).
> 
> The problems then: Can you create a ppd that has free text fields in the
> printer specific options area? Could you then extract this information
> in a useful way for HylaFAX?



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