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

[iain@iainstevenson.com (Iain Stevenson)]

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Aristedes,

There are still some of us about with Macs! - did you find out whether the source code for the other Mac fax clients is available?

  Iain Stevenson


On Sat, Dec 11, 1999, 1:16:37 am GMT Aristedes Maniatis wrote:


>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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