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- From: cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Faxing a .dvi file on from IBM-pc or .dvi to TIFF conversion.
- Message-ID: <1302@se.alcbel.be>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 07:34:52 GMT
- References: <9211130945.AA15063@ifmsun3.ifm.uni-hamburg.de>
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- Not trying to start an Atari/PC flame war here ;-> but... this is one problem
- I don't have with QFax; I have drivers for both TeX and Calamus, so whether I'm
- in programming or WYSIWIG mode I just have to tell the relevant proggie to
- "print" to the fax device and it generates a file in QFax's format (compressed
- raster?) and bungs it into the send queue.
-
- The developers of QFax had the brilliant idea of releasing source code for the
- file formatting routines into the public domain, and publishing a driver-writer's
- guide. Consequently if the developers of a DTP/WP program don't provide a Qfax
- driver, someone will hack one together.
-
- Kodak please copy ... :-)>
-
- So - is there no PC fax program that allows itself to be treated as a device
- with published specifications?
-
- By the way, I set faxes using 180*180 matrix printer fonts at -m=1.095, and
- by fac standards the results are ACE.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Chris.nosig
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