On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
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> Hi Guys,
>
> Anyone have a favorite Hylafax client?
>
> I have been using J-Hyla-FAX.  It works okay.  I wish I did not
> have to convert everything over to Post Script before fax'ing.
> I presume printing directly to HylaFAX is out of the question.
>
> Many thanks,
> -T

Hi! Oh, you asked a good question, and I happened to write the SunOS
port of that *years* ago, and contributed to the "upstream vendor"
compatible Linux ports. Working with its author, Sam Lefler, was a
privilege. Scary bright man, invented TIFF, one of the authors of BSD.

The answer is that you have to get the target phone number into the
system *somehow*. Your print queue would have to obtain the
information from somewhere: that's why the Windows "print queue" based
tools, like the PDF printers, pop a little window to ask questions. So
a GUI that does what you want should be feasible. Hylafax, and the
discussion lists, are hosted at Sourceforge: go aks over there and
tell them i said "hi".

Also, unless your setup is odd, Postscript or tiffg3 conversion an
handle dozens of file types, is automated, relies on ghostscript, and
is managed by the "typerules". Has it been a problem for you? If so,
let us know or mention it to the HylaFAX groups.