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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: FAX Modems
Summary: Bitfax SW notes
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Date: 29 Apr 91 19:36:51 GMT
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In the referenced article gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal writes:
#
#Bitfax reputedly has a TSR to capture printer output and convert it to fax
#format.  Allegedly this knows how to deal with HP Laserjet format. 
#
#Does anyone know how smart the Bitfax capture is?  Such as:
#	- does it recognize fonts being downloaded?
#	- does it recognize fonts cards?
#Or does it ignore almost everything and format all your text as 10cpi
#Letter Gothic no matter what?

Basically, the last.   According to the documentation, it extracts the ASCII
characters from the printer feed, and replaces the printer output with its
own fonts.   As this is not particularly useful to me I haven't tried it.

Several fonts are supplied, including Gothic.   Unfortunately they are all
proportional fonts except for "Courier 10 (fine)", which look well on memos
but are useless for tables.   Consequently I have to send anything with
tables or multiple columns in FINE mode!   If anyone has a fixed pitch font
that works in NORMAL mode I'd be grateful for a copy.

As well as screen and printer capture - which I'm sure are very useful in
some circumstances - Bitfax will read directly the files of some standard
word processors, including Word Perfect.  Again it uses its own fonts though.

If you want images as well as text, you can send - or merge in with text
documents - files in TIFF, IMG or PCX format as well as its own version of
"FAX" (G3).    So what I'd like is something that will convert HP Laserjet
output to one of those (or almost any standard image format), so I can for
example send the result of DTP software instead of just the text.  Does
such a thing exist?

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