asterisk users - Oct 2006 - sending fax with chan-capi

Hi!

Has someone ever used the sendfax option of new chan-capi to send fax? I 
  need some help regarding the sff format:

How can I generate sff format? I found sfftobmp, not nothing the other 
way round.

Is there a nice way to get the sff out of an Windows application (like 
virtual printers for hylafax) or at least some scripts which produce the 
sff and the asterisk call file out of an pdf?

thanks
klaus

> How can I generate sff format? I found sfftobmp, not nothing the  
> other way round.
You can use ghostscript:

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=cfax -sOutputFile=<output.sff>
<input.ps>

> Is there a nice way to get the sff out of an Windows application  
> (like virtual printers for hylafax) or at least some scripts which  
> produce the sff and the asterisk call file out of an pdf?
Here's something I use (not Windoze, sorry):

http://svn.dataflake.org/filedetails.php? 
repname=DataflakeSoftware&path=%2Fasterisk-chancapi-faxscripts% 
2Ffile2fax.py&rev=0&sc=0

The script takes TIFF, PS or PDF as input, creates SFF and a call  
file. It is run out of cron and checks if suitable files have been  
dropped into a spool directory.

The whole package at http://svn.dataflake.org/listing.php? 
repname=DataflakeSoftware&path=%2Fasterisk-chancapi-faxscripts% 
2F&rev=0&sc=0 contains some documentation and also a script that I  
use to handle incoming faxes (with capicommand receivefax).

jens