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Title: automatic fax printing
Post by: Ronald Tanis on April 03, 2002, 04:18:22 PM

is there anyone who uses e-smith with automatic fax printing ??

So when a fax arrives is prints automaticly to a printer defined on your e-smith server

with regards,
Ronald

Title: Re: automatic fax printing
Post by: Duncan on April 03, 2002, 05:31:09 PM

Try

http://www.hylafax.org/howto/tweaking.html#ss6.8

Regards Duncan

Title: Re: automatic fax printing
Post by: Ronald Tanis on April 04, 2002, 11:45:54 AM

I'll try, but it doesn't work

anyone suggestions

with regardsRonald Tanis wrote:
>
> is there anyone who uses e-smith with automatic fax printing ??
>
> So when a fax arrives is prints automaticly to a printer
> defined on your e-smith server
>
> with regards,
> Ronald

Title: Re: automatic fax printing
Post by: Dub Dublin on April 05, 2002, 07:44:40 AM

Darrell May sells a version of Hylafax already customised for SME, apparently not only is it SME-manageable, but it also automatically converts incoming faxes into PDF files and e-mails them.  Sounds pretty good for ~ US$60 (price is CN$95, See http://myezserver.com/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=0&product=software for more information.  It's not entirely clear to me if the Windows client software is included, but it looks like it is.)

I plan to try this RSN with a setup I'm building for an exacting client (my Dad, in this case...)  I'll let y'all know how it goes.

Title: Re: automatic fax printing
Post by: Ronald Tanis on April 05, 2002, 10:51:55 AM

i'll know darrel. We have bought his software last year and it works great, but know we want to print it automatticly to a printer that is connected to the e-smith box.

I have no idea how i can solve this problem

Thanks for your time,
Ronald Tanis

Title: Re: automatic fax printing
Post by: ClaudioG on April 05, 2002, 04:39:15 PM

Hi,
my solution:

I have added in my customized faxrcvd script something like this:

If you have a postscript printer:
/usr/bin/lpr -Fb -P .ps

If you have not a postscript printer, you must first use gostscript, with a line like this:

/usr/bin/gs -q -sDEVICE= -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE= \
       -sOutputFile=.tmp  .ps < /dev/null

then call lpr:

/usr/bin/lpr -Fb -P .ps

NB:
1) : must match your printer, see gs -h for complete list
2) : a4 or legal or.... (see man gs for details)

This works fine for me, I hope is usefull for you,

Regards,
ClaudioG

PS: For Rick Sulman: do you want add something like this in Hylafax How-to? I can write for standard installation....

Title: Re: automatic fax printing
Post by: Ronald Tanis on April 15, 2002, 02:41:02 PM

Please do you have your /var/spool/hylafax/bin/*.* files for me.

I don't know were i can put your lines in my faxrcvd script,

I want to use that when a fax arrived it prints automatticly to a printer attached on the network and an e-mail with a *.pdf with it

Really thanks for your time.

Ronald Tanis
rmt@coas.com