Contents

Licence
Introduction
Features
Online Help
Help Needed
Requirements
Screen Shots
Download
ChangeLog
E-Mail Author

New History that gives you a small fax page preview

Licence

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991

Introduction

Gefax is a gui front end for Efax©. Gefax has no network support. If you need to access a fax spool (either on the local machine or across a network) Gefax will be of no use to you. An excellent application exists with these capabilities called Gfax. Gfax is listed in the gnome software map.
If however, you have a modem attached to your computer, I believe Gefax is ideal. You will need to setuid to root on the Efax executable or have the correct permission to use your modem. All Gefax versions now include the latest (Development) version of Efax (© Ed Casas). This will allow Efax to be executed in a different directory and therefore improve security. Gefax greater than version 0.4-0 will only execute efax in /usr/share/gefax/efax/.

Gefax Features

• Fax multiple files at ounce.
• Fax to multiple recipients unattended.
• Receive a fax after the phone has been picked up.
• Wait, answer the phone and receive a fax.
• Automatically print a fax on receive
• Browse received faximilies, with an option to print, view and delete the fax
• Support for Class 1, 2 and 2.0 fax modems.
• Integrated address book with searching sorting and filtering of contacts & gnome-card file compatability.

All components are designed to be a simple as possible while providing the required features. If you find this not to be the case, please E-mail the author with a suggestion or the problem/s that you have encountered. I'm definitely not being paid and no professional, but I wish to make this application as useful as possible!

I am always keen to learn so feel free to send me a few pointers etc, or, if you wish to help develop gefax E-Mail me.

Help Needed

Toolbar Pixmaps are neede desparately! These pixmaps would be useful for any gnome fax application. Any contributions will be greatly appreciated. See the README file with gefax for more information.
If you discover a bug please send a report to my e-mail address.
All suggestions are also welcome as I am no guru!, just a beginner.
Thank you to the people who have emailed information.

Requirements

Apart from having the most awesome operating system (LINUX) and the best desktop (GNOME).
You will need the following packages:

• libtiff >= 3.4-6 (Included with RedHat 6.1+ I think)
• ghostscript
• gtk+ >= 1.2.8-0 (eg Ximian gnome)
• gal 0.8.99.2 (From Ximian Evolution Snapshot)
• libxml 1.8.13 (Source Download RPM)
• gdk-pixbuf (gdk-pixbuf-0.11.0-ximian.1)

The source may work OK with lesser versions of these packages. The requirements are set in the RPM spec file

These packages will most likely have been installed with your Linux distribution. In addition to the files being present, Efax will need to be setuid as root (chmod 4775 /usr/share/gefax/efax/efax) or you will need permission to use the modem on your computer if you are not logged in as root (Logging in as root in order to use gefax is NOT recommended!).
You will find efax in /usr/share/gefax/efax after installing.
NOTE: The RPM will automatically chmod 4775 efax when installed.

Download RPM or Source

You may have to re-name the files after downloading as I couldn't
upload and preserve the correct filenames. cheers

Latest Release - Version 0.4-3

NOTES
If you compile gefax yourself, you will need to make and install libGefax before compiling gefax. All help files etc will now be installed and uninstalled correctly from the source. (I hope).
Gefax won't compile unless you run configure with "--with-included-gettext". I have no idear why??
If you have received faximilies you MUST upgrade to vers 0.4-3 because this version will upgrade your history. Future versions will not upgrade your history and therefore you will LOSE it. This will not happen again as the new system is much more expandable (and more efficient)
Please report all bugs to daryl.g@visto.com so any problems can be fixed for vers 0.4-4. Thank You

Gefax
RPM	gefax-0.4-3.i386.rpm
Source RPM	gefax-0.4-3.src.rpm
Source Tarball	gefax-0.4.3.tar.gz

libGefax
RPM	libGefax-0.1-1.i386.rpm
Source RPM	libGefax-0.1-1.src.rpm
Source Tarball	libGefax-0.1-1.tar.gz