[cups.general] fax through CUPS

Michael Kesler kaze at packhouse.org
Wed Mar 16 03:07:27 PST 2005


Simple Solution:

http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fax4CUPS/

Works good (we use that at work).

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.
> 
> I am sure someone has done this before.  Is there a trick to getting CUPS to handle the Fax sending?  Is preprocessing through ghostscript best?
> 
> Steve
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