Faxing with mgetty+sendfax (.gs to .g3 translation?)

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From: Peter Caffin
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00

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I'm trying to get us to where we can output a Ghostscript file from
StarOffice or Netscape or whatever and then invoke a CGI program which
I'll write (calling however many translation programs I need to in series
to get it going) to translate a file.gs to file.g3 so it can be faxed.

The intermediate steps of .g3 to .pbm, and .pbm to .xbm, are fine, so I
could even use something that translates from .gs to any of those formats.
I have a niggling feeling that Ghostview might be able to do some of this,
but, I haven't found anything on it in the docs.

The idea behind it all is to end up with the benefits of mgetty+sendfax
(ie, being able to use the same line as dial-out, dial-in and fax-in) with
the ability to fax documents from our .gs outputting office apps .

If I'm going about this in a completely stupid way, please let me know :).

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From: "Peter Caffin" <nospampc@it.net.au>
Subject: Faxing with mgetty+sendfax (.gs to .g3 translation?)
Date: 1999/03/03
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