webinterface for mgetty+sendfax+...

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Hi,

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > I think it's a good idea, and there should be an (optional!!) way to
> > view faxes remotely via WWW. I happen to be at different customer sites
> > all the time, and viewing my faxes-at-home by ftp'ing G3 files is not what
> > I call "useful"... (and remote viewfax is too slow over an 28.8 link)
> 
> just one comment, at a quick glance a .g3 files converted to .gif does
> not seem to increase too much (I have seen some 10% increase for a
> lowres page of typewritten text, and a shrunk to half the original
> size for handwritten header pages). If more extensive tests confirm
> this, the visualization problem would be greatly simplified by
> converting the files to gif at the server side.

Gzip'ed pbm files are also quite small, you're right.

Problem with this approach is: when do you want to do the conversion G3 
to GIF? If you want to do it right after the fax comes in, you have to 
keep all files twice (assuming that you have other G3 viewers locally that
you don't want to abandon). If you want to do it in the CGI-bin, getting
the files will be slow, because of the conversion on-the-fly.

As you have to decode the files anyway on the receiving end, to display
them, sending them as G3 would avoid the overhead of local conversion
to "whatever".

But as this isn't my project actually, this is definitely no final word
against or for anything :-)

gert

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