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From: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Postscript <-> Fax wanted
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Date: 5 Jan 91 23:30:16 GMT
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Reply-To: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
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If you have a PC somewhere in the loop, look into Hijaak.  It seems to be
able to handle all of the popular graphics file formats, and can control
many PC FAX boards.

If you want to go the long way around...use a Postscript to Epson translator
(I believe a few are commercially available.).  Have the FAX board set up to
capture LPT?: data.  (The SatiFAXtion board and a few others can do this.)
You might end up liking this way more thanks to the wide availability of
Postscript emulation programs that might come in handy for other odd jobs.

I personally use Ventura Publisher to make up a page, then print to the
LaserMaster board in file mode.  It then writes a .PCX file.  I can transmit
this file with 3/4 of my FAX boards.

I'm hoping someone gets on the stick and makes a good OS/2 FAX program soon!
(Intel has a program set up to assist programmers in doing this, but nobody
has taken a bite.)

Good luck!

--kyler