Free fax software

satimis · 01-13-2005, 11:39 PM

Hi folks,

FedoraCore2

Could you please recommend a free fax software to send and receive fax. I'm currently running 'efax'. To send English text document it works without problem. 'efix' can convert the English text document to fax image but it does not work on Chinese text document converting the latter to fax image. What I can do is to import the Chinese document with GIMP and then save the document as 'pbm' format. Then 'efix' can convert 'pbm' document to fax image ready to send. Alternatively I can use KSnapshot to capture the Chinese document and save the same as in 'pbm' format. It is not very convenient.

Kindly advise.

TIA

satimis

scuzzman · 01-13-2005, 11:50 PM

GFax seems to work pretty well.

satimis · 01-14-2005, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by scuzzman
GFax seems to work pretty well.

Hi scuzzman,

Tks for your advice.

Is it gfax part of GNOME which is also running on the OS

However neither

$ rpm -qa | grep gfax

Nor
# yum search gfax

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could find it. Whether I have to install it separately.

B.R.
satimis

shengchieh · 01-14-2005, 04:29 PM

Take a look at

http://www.fax2send.com/fax2send/page/home.html

Never used it, so can't make any recommendation.

Sheng-Chieh

ka9qlq · 02-02-2005, 02:31 PM

Hi satimis How did you get Efax to convert text documents and send them? Every time I try it grips It needs a postscript file. Does anyone know of a how to?
Thanks.
Alvin

satimis · 02-03-2005, 04:31 AM

Hi ka9qlq,

Quote:

Hi satimis How did you get Efax to convert text documents and send them? Every time I try it grips It needs a postscript file. Does anyone know of a how to?

Just run

efix file.txt

then it will convert the file to fax image ready to send.

It only works on English text file. I'm still looking for a solution to convert Chinese text file to fax image.

HTH

B.R.
satimis

ka9qlq · 02-03-2005, 02:46 PM

When I try that it says
"ESP Ghostscript 7.07.2 Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Not valid postscript file"
and stops. Strange because I can look at it an it was truned in to an image file.
Alvin

satimis · 02-03-2005, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ka9qlq
When I try that it says
"ESP Ghostscript 7.07.2 Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Not valid postscript file"
and stops. Strange because I can look at it an it was truned in to an image file.
Alvin

Hi ka9qlq,

You encountered the same problem as when I tried to convert Chinese text file to fax image. I could not solve this problem. Also I can view the p.s. file thus created, faxing it failed. But it worked for me in converting English text file to fax image and fax the latter out. The correct syntax;

# efix -nletter.%03d letter

which you can find on "man efax". 'letter' is the file which you need to convert to fax image. Don't ask me on "nletter.%03d". I also expect to know what it is.

B.R.
satimis