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

["Paul A. Franz" <paulfranz@xxxxxxxxx>]

HylaFSP is a very nice product in itself. One thing it does is use the
Microsoft rendering software to generate the tiff image and that isn't
anywhere near as robust as are the tools such as ps2tiff furnished with
Linux.

For this reason I would recommend going another route where the Word
document is printed first to a postscript file then sent to HylaFAX via
samba, e-mail, or with HylaFAX's built in FTP protocol. I agree, doing Word
conversion with OO is not going to be very reliable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hylafax-users-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul D. Kraus
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 3:15 PM
> To: Frank Peters
> Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [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.
> Because they arle as you put customers then OpenSource and Free are
> not always the best alternative. Don't get stuck in a black white mind
> set between OO free is the way and everything else is evil. Hylafax is
> awesome but from an enduser point of view they should not have to do
> anything different to fax to it then they would any other system. You
> should look into HylaFSP. Inexpensive and it would be a great service
> to provide to your customers to give them seamless intergration with
> the microsoft fax wizard/service. For the modest license fee the
> benefit to your users will be immeditly noticable. I do not work for
> HylaFSP. I just had this same problem and after chassing my tail and
> running in circles i found HylaFSP and it made everything better for
> my windows users.
> 
> Technology should be transparent and should function exactly as the
> user "expects" it to.
> 
> Paul
> 
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