flexfax: Re: TIFF driver

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

"Bernd Proissl" <news@proissl.de> writes:

> > I am really surprised that nobody did something like that in open source
> > yet. This is by far the cleanest and simplest way to integrate a
> > client with
> > a fax server (i.e. generate a TIFF (or even PS) file, then send it as an
> > attachement to the fax server with the fax number in the
> > destination address
> > and the text of the email as a cover page note).
> 
> the creation of the driver seems to be realy difficult,
> this is what if found after a short usenet search. Probably therefore
> there is no free printer driver.
> 
> There is supposed to be one on MSDN but i only found some class Descriptions.
> It is not clear for me if this is a complete driver (TIFF is explicitly named
> as one of other "languages") and how to compile/install it. I will not have the
> time to do this. Maybe some else has experience here?

Bernd,

libtiff is already ported to Windows, so the creating TIFF driver should
not be very difficult task. But it really requires some time (which all we
lack). BTW, have you evaluated the free (?) TIFF driver, reference to which
I posted here some days ago?

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry