On Sunday 10 February 2008 03:53:29 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2008-02-09 at 21:48 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
I would like to be able to send and receive faxes using my openSUSE v10.3 system. A bit of looking around showed that there are not many applications to do this -- actually only one, HylaFax, which I thought likely to be more capable than the combination of sendfax+mgetty, I have downloaded and installed HylaFax.
Surprisingly, HylaFax does not sport a GUI, as far as I have been able to discover. I find it difficult to believe that many people, having acquired a sophisticated operating system like SuSE, will be content with command-line operation, so I have to wonder if I have overlooked another available application. What do people do for fax service in SuSE? Or do only few people use this OS for faxing?
Hylafax is a fax server (a very good one), and as such, it doesn't need a GUI - same as most or all services in Linux don't. However, there are
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many clients that can connect to hylafax and some of them are GUIs; there are java clients, for example, that work in windows. Just have a look at the hylafax website and choose one you like.
Another reply has mentioned jHylaFax, which sounds very interesting.
The HylaFax webpage speaks of the need for Ghostscript. What is this for? Since faxes arrive in raster form, not as either ASCII codes or Postscript formatting information, what does Ghostscript have to contribute to the fax function?
Because faxes are sent to the server as postscript, and because it usually sends them to the user as postscript, too (or tiff or pdf, if so configured). You don't see the raster.
That answers the question. Thanks.
For example, you can configure your system as a mail server that converts mails to faxes and sends them, and viceversa. Or you can print to a samba printer that faxes the pages. There are many possibilities.
Yes. I have found a reference to a webpage describing how to send faxes through CUPS (www.jennings.homelinux/fax_cups.html), which sounds interesting. Unfortunately, the site no longer exists, although the URL still brings up the server.
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