Re: [hylafax-users] Java Application

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org wrote:
> We are writing a java app which will send a variety of attachments to hylafax where the hylafax server sends the batch as a single fax.  The proposed attachment types are rtf and pdf.  Currently we face a few issues. 
> 
> 1) Has anyone done anything like this before with these formats?
> 2) Is there a better means to sending faxes to the server other than using hfaxd which only accepts ps or pdf?
> 2) Are there any conversion programs for rtf to tiff/pdf/ps?
> 
You might want to think about it in terms of *printing* rtf, not 
programmatically converting it, because then all you need is a 
PostScript printer set up on Windows.

How easy this is from Java, I have no idea.  In Delphi, for instance, 
you could just stick the rtf into a TRichEdit control, which has the 
built-in capability to print rtf.

You could then:
* Set up your printer to output a file, which you then send to hfaxd.
* Have a print monitor like the one in WHFC intercept the print driver 
output, or
* Have your printer going to a Samba share, then use something very much 
like printfax.pl/Respond (http://www.boerde.de/~horstf) to get it to 
Hylafax.  This option takes all the Hylafax protocol out of the picture 
for your application.


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