On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 09:03 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 06/08/2009 08:16 AM:
I only send faxes from openoffice, and I've got a special fax printer set up for that. To have a fax printer available everywhere, I think you need to set it up in cups, and I'm pretty certain I have come across a hylafax "backend" for cups or some such.
That sounds interesting. The 'everywhere' hylafax integrate with CUPS seems great for the bricks-an-mortar office; another box (or virtual) an another phone line along with many other phone lines.
But for those of us who live an work 'out of the office' an use a laptop, something else is needed.
When I google for 'openoffice+fax' I get a lot of references to How-Tos that specify:
To send a fax directly from OpenOffice.org, you need a fax modem and a fax driver that allows applications to communicate with the fax modem.
Well that's a big MAYBE. Maybe the modem in my laptop can fax, but is it a real modem? Maybe I'd be better off using a network service like eFax if I deal with a lot of faxes, both outgoing an incoming.
It's been quite a while but Carl Spencer III had this info back some years ago, there is a simple way of adding a fax modem as a printer, but I do not offhand recall it. {snip} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org