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In <920427985.415710@beldin.it.net.au> "Peter Caffin" <nospampc@it.net.au> writes:

>I'm trying to get us to where we can output a Ghostscript file from
That's postscript. Ghostscript is a postscript interpreter(ie converts
postscript files to some suitable display like g3)
>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 fax program can call ghostscript automatically to convert the .ps
files.


>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 .

Yes. perfectly possible. In fact you can set up your mail so that you
can mail a file to a fax number and have it fax it out for you.


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

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