Linked by Keith Burgess on Mon 20th Jun 2005 17:48 UTC
Tired of getting up from your desk to fax a document? Have you ever wondered why your company's call center maintains wall-sized desks of fax machines? Employees at many large organizations are asking the same questions. Fortunately, so is Biscom, Inc. While there are a few companies providing enterprise fax solutions, Biscom, in this author's opinion, stands out as the market leader.
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I want to see that already offered by HylaFax! And all that out of the box. If you know a easy way of automaticly sending attachments, then let me know. Because than I can replace the solution I have now done on my Linux server (runing Wine on a frame buffer and using the varios Microsoft viewers to generate a Postscript document out of the doc, xls, ppt, ...) with the more easy one.
Wow, you've gone all out with the integration. :-) I've seen this done on linux servers much more cleanly by integrating it with a Samba printer share and web interface. What you want to do is set up a Samba printer share (generic postscript) that will accept postscript documents, convert them into PDFs or a standard PS, and then store them in a directory somewhere. Then, set up a web interface in which users can view the contents of the directory, select a file, enter a fax number, and release it to hylafax (if you store them as PDF files, they can proof the document before releasing it). You'll need a little bit of programming on the web interface, but it's easy enough to do with PHP.
Another, easier method is to install a PDF printer (CutePDF or equivalent) on each machine and have the users generate a PDF which they can attach to an e-mail to send to the hylafax machine (or drop in a folder with the correct name - however you have it currently set up). This is much easier than supporting various windows-only file formats on a linux box. (I would consider running them through OpenOffice somehow before fiddling with WINE).
Anyway, good luck.