Re: [hylafax-users] Can I do this with HylaFax

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 11:14 AM 11/14/00 +0200, Mistry Rakesh wrote:
>Hi everyone ...
>
>I am considering using HylaFax to do the following ( currently WinFax
>doesn't do what I need and crashes too often) :

That's a feature (crashing) of many Windows service-programs. ;-)

>I have a batch program that creates entries in a table for statement
>requests where each line in the table represents a statement. Another
>'monitor' program then reads this table for any new requests, generates html
>versions of the documents and is then supposed to create new faxes with
>these html attachments.

HylaFAX is a fax server.  So, hopefully you realize that all of this table
and monitor process will need to be handled external to HylaFAX.

>Would it be possible to configure HylaFax to read these html documents and
>convert them to a fax image and then send them off automatically. I would
>then also be able to query whether a fax was sent successfully or not. 

HylaFAX doesn't go out and grab things to fax unless you tell it to.  So,
you could set up a cron process that runs a script to do what you need.
But yes it is possible.  The fax status and other notification things are
good, flexible, and built-in to the HylaFAX package.

>Also, how good is the hylafax html2ps converters as my html docs are fairly
>complex with many levels of nested tables ? I would also like to
>automatically generate a coverpage (with an image) and cover text.

HylaFAX doesn't have html2ps.  Jan Kärrman has one that is linked on the
HylaFAX website.  I don't know how well it works.

>Currently all this runs (or shall I say attempts to :) on Windows. How
>difficult/time consuming would a setup like this take. I am learning Linux
>currently (close to 'competent' I believe).

Generally speaking, and if you follow the instructions properly, HylaFAX
shouldn't take a newbie more than a few hours of setup time including the
reading.  The kicker here is going to be all of the HylaFAX-external things
that you want to do.  All of it should be possible, assuming that you can
get those things to do what you want.

Lee Howard

>Any additional info that you think is helpful would be great.

Read the website.



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