Hi, Does anyone know of a Print-to-Fax client that works with asterisk & spandsp? Astfax is a partial solution but that only lets us email the fax in, we'ld like to set it up so the user can hit the print button and send the fax (even if all it does is email - transparently to the user - the fax to astfax). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050309/ee368b83/attachment.htm
I've seen a fax-printer driver for Windows PCs in the source (TurboPower's AsynchPro). Would be an interesting project to adapt it for * use. -----Original Message----- From: MattMiller@ofbf.org [mailto:MattMiller@ofbf.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:31 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Print-to-Fax client Hi, Does anyone know of a Print-to-Fax client that works with asterisk & spandsp? Astfax is a partial solution but that only lets us email the fax in, we'ld like to set it up so the user can hit the print button and send the fax (even if all it does is email - transparently to the user - the fax to astfax).
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:31 -0500, MattMiller@ofbf.org wrote:> > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a Print-to-Fax client that works with asterisk & > spandsp? Astfax is a partial solution but that only lets us email the > fax in, we'ld like to set it up so the user can hit the print button > and send the fax (even if all it does is email - transparently to the > user - the fax to astfax).Turn off HTML. Research cups. I know people who use cups to create PDFs for them. Shouldn't be any really big effort to get cups and windows to talk to each other and create a "print job" that creates the .call file and the ,ps file as well. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
> Does anyone know of a Print-to-Fax client that works with asterisk & > spandsp? Astfax is a partial solution but that only lets us email the fax > in, we'ld like to set it up so the user can hit the print button and send > the fax (even if all it does is email - transparently to the user - the fax > to astfax).You should be able to download one (for WIndows and possibly Mac) from efax or j2.com I think. http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/download?rqcp=2 http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/download
Hi,> -----Original Message----- > You should be able to download one (for WIndows and possibly Mac) from > efax or j2.com I think. > > http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/download?rqcp=2 > > http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/downloadYou might be able to do that, but take a good look at the license agreement on the driver - you might not be allowed to use the software fully without having a subscription to their services. Florian
This conversation is interesting, What about a driver that will send the print out to Asterisk, on the same network to be sent as Fax ? Is there anything that already exists for this? Quoting Florian Overkamp <florian@obsimref.com>:> Hi, > >> -----Original Message----- >> You should be able to download one (for WIndows and possibly Mac) from >> efax or j2.com I think. >> >> http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/download?rqcp=2 >> >> http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/download > > You might be able to do that, but take a good look at the license agreement > on the driver - you might not be allowed to use the software fully without > having a subscription to their services. > > Florian > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
> What about a driver that will send the print out to Asterisk, on the same > network to be sent as Fax ? > Is there anything that already exists for this?Hello, Several months ago I worked on such a solution using salsafax. The problem was on how to determine the fax number to send the fax to. I tried with OCR but had a 60% success rate extracting the number. It was cool for me but not good for a bussiness. FYI, salsafax is a script for use with Samba and CUPS/Lpr. Basically you export a printer to the network, and then you can setup that network printer in your windows/samba clients and print to it. Then you have to convert the postrcript file to .tiff to be used by txfax. Another problem is that I do not know if spandsp can return the status of the fax after it is sent, so you know if it was received ok or not. Regards,> Quoting Florian Overkamp <florian@obsimref.com>: > > > Hi, > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> You should be able to download one (for WIndows and possibly Mac) from > >> efax or j2.com I think. > >> > >> http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/download?rqcp=2 > >> > >> http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/download > > > > You might be able to do that, but take a good look at the license agreement > > on the driver - you might not be allowed to use the software fully without > > having a subscription to their services. > > > > Florian > >-- Nicol?s Gudi?o Buenos Aires - Argentina
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nicol?s Gudi?o wrote:> > What about a driver that will send the print out to Asterisk, on the same > > network to be sent as Fax ? > > Is there anything that already exists for this?For HylaFax several adapter programs exist for Windows. See e.g. http://support.real-time.com/open-source/hylafax/win2k/index.html. At least the Python-based programs should be adaptable to collect the information and send to asterisk. Alternativly, you can wait until SpanDSP is able to talk to HylaFax directly. Peter
We have a client that's almost done - it allows faxing from Windows/Linux via e-mail or SIP. Your Asterisk server can decide what to do with it at that point...
Florian Overkamp wrote:>Hi, > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>You should be able to download one (for WIndows and possibly Mac) from >>efax or j2.com I think. >> >>http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/download?rqcp=2 >> >>http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/download >> >> > >You might be able to do that, but take a good look at the license agreement >on the driver - you might not be allowed to use the software fully without >having a subscription to their services. > >Florian >Just as an extra datapoint, I have been experimenting with the builltin fax facilities in OSX. Basically there is a cups printer called "Internal_Modem" which accepts postscript and sends faxes out of the external modem. I had the external modem plugged into a sipura 2000 which connected over ulaw to asterisk which then calls out over PRI to the far fax. Initial experiments seem encouraging . The really cool thing is that the CUPS printer is a network service so all the systems on my net can now send faxes. The othernice thing is that the processing of postscript to tiff/fax is done off the asterisk box with a full set of genuine postscript fonts. (With the imac mini - it could almost be described as cost effective to buy one just as a fax gateway). Tim.