Re: [hylafax-users] Native PCL faxing?!

["Josh Welch" <jwelch@buffalowildwings.com>]

Nicholas Bernstein said:
>
> Am I reading this correctly? If this is what it seems to be, and I can
> fax documents as native PCL ... well, I"m going to be /PSYCHED/ we
> generate documents as native PCL and normally have to convert them to
> tiff, which when doing lots of faxing takes up a decent amount of
> processor.
>
> <snip http://www.hylafax.org/troubleshooting.html>
> Server Basics
>
> One faxq process does the job scheduling and initiation of outbound
> calls; it handles many tasks:
>
>       * manage the queue of jobs and schedule their processing
>       * prepare PostScript, TIFF, and PCL documents for transmission
>       * start the processes that do the low-level work to deliver
>         facsimile or pager message
> </snip>
>
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> +---------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Nicholas Bernstein            | nick@docmagic.com             |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator    | http://www.docmagic.com       |
> | Document Systems Inc.         |                               |
> +---------------------------------------------------------------+
>

1. There was, I believe, PCL support planned for HylaFAX, I think the docs
have an asterisk in them stating that PCL support is not yet implemented.
2. You don't fax PCL, you fax tiff, so its going to need to be converted
from one from to another no matter what.

Josh


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