[cups.general] fax through CUPS

[Jerome Alet]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:21:39AM -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> I have been looking at options for sending Faxes at the command 
> line for my machine running Mac OS X.  Documents show I can fax only 
> a limited set of file types.  TIFF-G3, PS, and text are supported. I 
> see that PDF files are not supported.  Testing with a PDF file 
> confirms eFix doesn't like the format.  Using fax and efax don't 
> work, requiring the efix conversion first of pdf's. 

You could install mgetty+sendfax

The included faxspool utility allows you do define your own filtering rules.

I don't know if this can be integrated into CUPS easily though, but
if you just want to send faxes from the command line, using CUPS maybe
is not necessary

bye

Jerome Alet