Re: [hylafax-users] CUPS support -- is it there?

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > It is an enourmous problem to start a gui from CUPS (in any kind of
> > normal-works-100%-of-the-time way).  Even if you are on the same machine
> > there are a myriad of security layers to traverse.  Unless there is
> > someway to hack up a PPD file to make 'fax number' a job attribute and
> > then dig that out again at the server - I don't even know if that is
> > possible.
> I've been using Hylafax for years - (more than 6?) with out any problems with 
> WHFC (after countless nightmares with M$ based fax packages). Now we are moving 
> seats to Linux I need a way to print to FAX.  Sounds like the workaround is to 
> print to a ps file and then use gfax for now (wonder if that works - no recent 
> updates ... yuck).

I'll test gfax again.  The latest version was written in C#, which I do,
so if the problem seems obvious (and the code is anything like sane)
I'll see what I can do.

> > Honestly I think they all stink, 
> Sort of what I was finding ...

Yep.

> > but last I checked setting up a fax
> > printer in Open Office was trivial - it just invokes sendfax.  Beyond
> > that there is gFax but I don't know how maintained it is currently.
> - will it talk to a hylafax server? .. Not from what I can tell.
> > If you are really interested and have a programmer happy I'd bet D-BUS
> > is the way to solve the communications problem - off the top of my head,
> D-bus is still young - may take some time before everyone gets on d-bus.

Yep.  But there are C# bindings, so maybe...

> Anyone have any luck with a web based client? That might work ..

Never even tried one.


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