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[hylafax-users] for those who wish to fax MS Word docs...



After another round of nagging from my customers to be able to fax Microsoft Word documents directly, I have revisited the small list of popular (and free) Word-to-Postscript converters.

First I looked at wvWare (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/), as I've done before. It doesn't look like their development has progressed much since the last time I looked at it, but I retested it anyway. Seems about the same as before: it (wvPS) converts most documents with lots of trouble with rather unpleasant results. But, if you don't care for formatting, and if the recipient is tolerant of the appearance, wvWare's stuff may work for you. It doesn't satisfy me (although I was going to say that it was better than nothing before I ran into antiword).

I hadn't ever looked at antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/) before. antiword was much easier to install than wvWare and the end result is much more clean and less error-prone than wvPS. The output is still not perfect, but it just may make my customers happy, and so I'm happy to keep them happy with it.

Here are the typerules entries for those interested. Uncomment the line that you wish to use.

# MS Office (Word) conversion using wvWare tools. These may produce
# imperfect renderings, but they're better than nothing, perhaps.
#
#0 short 0xd0cf ps /usr/local/bin/wvPS "%i" %o
#0 short 0xd0cf ps antiword -p letter -m 8859-1.txt "%i" > %o


Of course, this is only of benefit to HylaFAX's sendfax users. Those of you who use other clients will need some other way, I suspect. At the moment HylaFAX faxq does not utilize typerules.

Lee.


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