On 09/30/2011 10:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> 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,

uh oh!
>   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.
Scary is the button to open a file in the send dialog being called "save".
Was that your doing?  Had to open a throw away file to make sure nothing
unthinkable happened.  Still freaks me out.  (I did report it.)

>
> 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.
Do you know of any Linux Hyla FAX clients that will do this?

>   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.
>
The reason I wrote this group and not the Hyla FAX group is that Scientific
Linux (old-out-of-date), is out of date on purpose.  The latest, 
greatest does
not always work.  That is why I wanted this group's input.

If no one writes me over here, I will eventually post over there.

Thank you for your work on  J-Hyla-FAX: it is a sweet utility.

Thank you for the tips too,
-T