Rony Bill wrote:
The Kubuntu 5.10 'System Settings' does have a printer setup with a 'print to fax printer' but its settings are blank. Any clues on how to link the fax applications with that fax printer?
Further to the earlier mail, one of the main problems with the fax utilities was that they could not tackle formatted text (doc), html etc and would print out the code instead of the script output and that too in a plain text.
The ideal solution would be to have a fax printer installed so that all the programs could access it using the print command. However it does not work that way. After installing and unsuccessfully using 'a2ps' and 'html2ps' to manually convert docs to postscript, I remembered that a work around is possible. In the document software itself, instead of printing to a printer, I chose the option to print to a file which was a postscript file. This file was then successfully faxed and I was able to receive it in the original document format.
So faxing in Linux is 2 steps. Print to a *.ps file and fax this file using the fax front ends.
This concludes my fax setup in Linux. Later on when I have the hw setup, I will try this out on a networked fax server.
Regards,
Rony.
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