According to the Efax man page and website, polling doesn't work. I'm using the RPM which comes with RedHat 6.2 and it works OK.
Maybe i'ts worth a try if you can't get polling to work.
Text files with long lines will result in loss of text when converted to a fax page. Pages will contain 66 lines. Faxing postscript or pdf
files produces much better results because the files contain page information. Text font type and size is also retained when converting postscript and PDF files to fax pages.
A4 page size is used. If you need "Legal" or "Unlimited Length" faxing, E-mail me. These options could be implimented when faxing postscript files. My view is that A4 is pretty much a standard for faximilies and therefore these features are not available.
A maximum of nine files can be faxed at once. However, the files may contain a total of 180 pages + cover page.
Probably contains bugs! Please help by emailing bugs to daryl.g@visto.com.
The cover page must be a tiffg3 file. There are many ways to create tiffg3 files. Here are two ways.
From a postscript file
Many applications can print a postscript file do disk. For example, abiword, gimp, dia. For best results, print as an a4 size page.
From a terminal issue this command substituting infile.ps with the postscript file. gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=coverpage infile.ps
This will create a tiffg3 cover page called coverpage in the current directory.
From a text file
Firstly, the text file must not be longer than 66 lines and the lines should not be too long. (otherwise they will be cut off)
Open a terminal and move to the directory containing the text file you wish to convert.
Issue this command substituting infile.txt with the text file name. efix -ncoverpage infile.txt
This will create a tiffg3 cover page called coverpage in the current directory.
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Gefax provides all the needed options to efax. You don't need any config files.
If you can't get gefax to work, efax may need additional options that gefax does not currently pass.
Please read the efax man page for details of possible options.
Please email me ( daryl.g@visto.com ) with any information, so these options can be included in the next release. That way everybody will benifit.
Command line options could be implimented to allow programs to use gefax to send a fax. Without getting too complicated it could be as simple as
printing to a temporary postscript file and executing gefax with the filename as an argument. Gefax would then popup the "Select Recipient" dialog box for the user to select from the address book, then send the fax.
This would require altering some of the existing code that is poorly written due to the Authors lack of knolledge (and lack of planning) at the time of writing this part of the program. This part of the program will be re - written soon in any case as it is too limited and untidy.
Some other considerations will need to be addressed to achieve this. If a copy of Gefax is already running and waiting for a fax the modem device will be locked and the fax transmission will fail, or, if the modem is in use by another program the transmission will fail.
An alternative method would be to build a panel applet into Gefax that could be waiting for a fax and then drag and drop files onto the applet.
In any case one of the methods will be implimented in time.
I can't see why I can't add the ability to automatically forward received faxes to a certain number. This could be a different line (modem device) or use the same line.
Maybe one day eog could be used as a bonobo component for viewing faxes. I simply don't have the time and know-how to do this yet.
Maybe one day I could add a compose feature that will allow scanning etc. Hopefully abiword will be able to be used as a bonobo component, supporting these features?. This is beyond my capabilities at the present point of time. One Day!
