Re: [hylafax-users] Faxing from Samba

[Christoph Scheeder <christoph.scheeder@scheeder.de>]

Hi,
just to show the complexity of this field:

you are probably right stating postscript is postscript, but there
are more ways to print a line in postscript:
one way is to tell the position, font and fontsize for the complete
line, 
which is the way you need to find the number and parse it from the file,
and the other way is to place every single character of the text itself,
which leads to an nearly unparsable postscriptfile,
and the third way which i've found in postscriptfiles produced by
windows is to rasterize the text and put the imagedata in the
postscriptfile,
which makes parsing completly impossible.
Which of these possibiltis you find depends on the program and the 
printerdriver, sometimes you even find a mixture of those posibilities 
in one file......
Christoph

ignace.suy@dutchtone.nl schrieb:
> 
> Funny, because postscript is postscript. If you do not change the textual
> formatting of your "fax-no: 12345" line anwhere between the f and the 5, it
> should end up on the same postscript line. Maybe you have a (how shall i put
> it) funny driver and then changing to a different postscript printer can
> help.
> 
> -Ignace
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Giulio Orsero [SMTP:giulioo@pobox.com]
> > Sent: dinsdag 17 oktober 2000 23:21
> > To:   Hylafax Users
> > Subject:      Re: [hylafax-users] Faxing from Samba
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:26:52 +0300, you wrote:
> >
> > >It must be familiar. Having setup as Paul Franz explained, Apple
> > >Laserwriter printer driver for \\ServerName\faxlp, now I want to send a
> > >fax to a local number which on the phone I would dial 222636 (I do not
> > >need Country and Area codes).
> > >I've read the writeup but I seem to miss a point...where,at the end of
> > the
> > >process of making the faxdoc do I insert the fax number? It's just one of
> > AFAIK, the process is based on the assumption that:
> >
> > 1) you put
> > fax-no: 12345
> > directly in the document you are writing
> >
> > 2) the application/postscript driver you use will keep that info in one
> > line, and a script on the samba side will parse the file to extract the
> > fax-no (the script knows it has to look for a string "fax-no: ....").
> >
> > It didn't work for me. I use wordperfect and the above line was
> > completely divided in many postscript lines.
> >
> > --
> > giulioo@pobox.com
> >


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