On Tuesday 21 June 2005 20:08, Mark Ratering wrote:
I am going to be sending faxes from a web based order system. When the
web button is pushed, i will take the form information and use it to
cell the faxsend command. The fax that is being sent will start as a
dynamically generated HTML page then be converted into either PDF or
PostScript. Should i convert the HTML to PDF or to PostScript? What
format will HylaFax handle the most gracefully?
Use PostScript, because (1) it's a standard format and (2) there's already a
command to do the job, html2ps. "man html2ps" will display the manpage.
First of all you probably want to generate a html test page in a file; then
you can experiment with this. You want to be able to pipe the html2ps output
straight into sendfax, so something like
cat test.html |html2ps -g |sendfax -d$faxno
but you probably will need to play with the options. Once you have a command
pipeline that just works, then you can use that in your script instead of
outputting to a file. In Perl, you would use something like
open FH, "|html2ps -g |sendfax -d$faxno";
or in PHP,
$fh = popen("html2ps -g |sendfax -d$faxno", "w");
When I did something like this, I just placed the HTML code that makes up the
fax into a scalar variable; then it was ready to pipe through html2ps and
sendfax and just as easy to display on stdout.
AJS
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