Re: [hylafax-users] Faxing from Samba

[<ignace.suy@dutchtone.nl>]

Yes, 

cat doc_name | lpr -Pfaxlp

will work just fine, meaning you can use it for any linux application that
supports ascii coded documents.

-Ignace

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Odhiambo Washington [SMTP:wash@iconnect.co.ke]
> Sent:	woensdag 18 oktober 2000 10:48
> To:	hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Subject:	Re: [hylafax-users] Faxing from Samba
> 
> * Christoph Scheeder <christoph.scheeder@scheeder.de> [20001018 11:33]:
> =>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.
> 
> Fax-Nr : ddd-ddddddd
> Must the document be postscript?
> What if I put Fax-Nr : 222636 on the first line of a ascii document then
> do a crazy thing like cat doc_name | lpr -Pfaxlp ???
> 
> 
> -Wash
> 
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