Re: [hylafax-users] Conversion of .pdf to .ps for sending through Hylafax

[Nikos Zaharioudakis <nzahar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/28/05, Michael Balamuth <mlb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've read several posts that say Hylafax has no trouble with accepting .pdf
> files instead of .ps from a client and sending them.  I'm running Hylafax
> 4.20 on a Gentoo distro. With Ghostscript GNU 8.15.  I wrote the client
> myself for Windows XP in Delphi and it communicates with hfaxd via the
> documented command set for creating jobs, sending the files and submitting
> the jobs.  It works well as long as I only send postscript native files.  In
> sending a .pdf, the system receives it but does nothing to convert it to .ps
> so that when the scheduler tries to send it, it dies as a bad file since it
> is still in .pdf format.  I don't find any hfaxd command that triggers a
> conversion on the server end nor do I see that any config files have entries
> that specify autoconversion, yet several posts actually say that the system
> has no problem with this.  Could someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> mlb@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
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That's why in most of the cases you do the convertion on the client.
With the whfc for example you install an Apple 16/600 PS printer. Just
because this driver has the best "anything" 2 ps convertion. In the
meanwhile there is ap monitor port on that printer that takes the ps
converted file in order to route it to the hylafax server. I am no
developer, but that's how I have understand it

Nikos
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