do you need a sendfax-frontend for windoze ?

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Hi,

Jochen Erwied wrote:
> Oliver Nittka <nittka@esem.com> wrote:
> 
> > for use in our local net, i just wrote a frontend for sendfax which runs under
> > windoze. it works as you would expect: you set up a postscript printer attached
> > to a local file. my proggie runs in background and waits for that file to be
> > written, then gets active and asks you for the number to dial.
> 
> I did a similar thing - but I use a different approach: You have to
> add some special keywords to your document, and a special inputfilter scans 
> for these keywords to produce a fax-job. 

Problem with this is, depending on the printer driver you use in Windoze,
it messes up the keywords *enormously* (e.g. the postscript driver
printing it in various fragments if you use images "nearby" or so).

I think the method(s) with a popup window for the fax number are better,
because they clearly separate between "data" and "meta-information"
(out-of-band signalling).

gert

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