Re: [hylafax-users] postscript woes on win2K

["Johann Sijpkes" <jsijpkes@abl.nl>]

Join the "blessings of Win2K" club!

There are several things happening when using a print share to fax 
documents using Win2K.

Install the correct printerdriver (I use the Apple 16/600) and set it to 
maximize the PS compatibility. I've set the pictures to non-
compressed (if this is an actual problem?)..

Use a faxfilter to scan the printjob on the faxnumber:
Note that Word (another MS blessing) wants to position each 
character on the page: there goes your Faxnumber trigger....
I've tackled this by first looking for the trigger (in my case "Faxno:") 
and convert the document to ASCII when it fails.

snippet:

cat > ${Faxfile}

#strip the faxnumber from the PS file
FAXNUM="$(cat $Faxfile | awk ' { IGNORECASE=1 } /Faxno?:?[0-
9-]*/ \
          { gsub(/-/,""); \
            start=match($0,/: /); \
            start+=match(substr($0,start),/[0-9]/)-1; \
            end=match(substr($0,start),/[^0-9]/)-1; \
            printf("%s\n",substr($0,start,end)); \
          }' )"

if [ "$FAXNUM" = "" ] ; then
  # else convert it to ASCII and scan again
  FAXNUM="$(ps2ascii $Faxfile | awk ' { IGNORECASE=1 } 
/Faxno?:?[0-9-]*/ \
          { gsub(/-/,""); \
            start=match($0,/: /); \
            start+=match(substr($0,start),/[0-9]/)-1; \
            end=match(substr($0,start),/[^0-9]/)-1; \
            printf("%s\n",substr($0,start,end)); \
          }' )"
fi

This should get you up and running.
There is only 1 problem left to tackle:
All printjobs are divided in 2 separate jobs, the first is the PS 
header? Which is separated from the main document.
This results in an error from the faxfilter script, but at the same 
time your document is faxed correctly.
I hope anyone has any hints on this one?

Good luck!
Johann




On 21 Apr 01, at 13:08, Jev wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have successfully set up hylafax on a freebsd box to send and receive
> facsimile's. I am now playing with sambafax so users can fax from
> desktop through a network print share.
> 
> However, this damn windows postscript driver has my heart broken. I have
> win2000 deployed on all the desktops here, and whatever way I configure
> any of the postscript drivers the output is no good.
> 
> I have tested the Apple Laserwriter postscript driver, a Adobe Driver,
> and several others with no luck. I have tried several different print
> driver settings including using the EPS output option as documented in
> section 5.6 Note 2 on the howto/faxing.html page.
> 
> Has windows tried to enhance something so as not to allow out put of
> standard postscript code? Am I missing something blatantly obvious?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated,
> -Emil J.V. Björsell 
> 
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