RE: Hylafax

When you order online at www.beijingsammies.com the order actually gets
converted into a fax and faxed to Sammies (system is 2-3 years old now).
It works pretty well, but phone lines and modems aren't the most
reliable thing in the world, so you need a backup system as well.

Haven't tried to use Hylafax for incoming faxes, though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Brown [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 16:45
> To: [email protected]; Beijing LUG technical questions and 
> assistance - Publicly posted
> Subject: [blug-tech] Hylafax
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for an OSS fax solution.  Hylafax seems to be it.
> 
> Anybody have any practical experience with Hylafax?
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:23 AM 1/04/2004 +0800, you wrote:
> >Here's hoping v.20 will be easier to pick up and run with....
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:18, Adam Lowry wrote:
> > > Richard Ford wrote:
> > > > This is my need as well.  For digi shots - to sometimes a quick 
> > > > crop/rotate/resize/etc sort of stuff.
> > > >
> > > > GIMP is too complex - layers - jeez - don't want to go 
> down that 
> > > > path. My needs are mainly for small things - so I don't 
> have to go 
> > > > through the process of using the graphics dept at work - which 
> > > > while good in results, is not good for my productivity 
> at times.  
> > > > I want it done NOW. I am sick of having to use win32 
> software.....
> > > >
> > > > I have digi cams connection working fine in linux.  But 
> now I need 
> > > > to find a replacement for all the free simple software 
> that came 
> > > > with my camera.
> > > >
> > > > I wish we could get MacOSX apps to work in linux, like they can 
> > > > get linux apps to work in MacOSX.  As most digi cams 
> come with mac 
> > > > and windows software....  :-(
> > > >
> > > > RF.
> > >
> > > I understand people taking a quick look at the gimp and being 
> > > intimidated, but for these simple operations the gimp does quite 
> > > well.
> > >
> > > For example, cropping: open the picture. The default tool is the 
> > > rectangle selection. Select what you want, then select the crop 
> > > tool- 4 across, 1 down. Click the selection. A dialog 
> pops up, with 
> > > a button that says, 'From selection.' Click it, hit OK, 
> and you're 
> > > cropped.
> > >
> > > Resizing is really simple, too: Right click->Image->Scale Image. 
> > > Rotate's there, too: Right Click->Image->Transforms->Rotate.
> > >
> > > If you're looking to batch convert a lot of pictures 
> (pretty common 
> > > with a digicam - I want to upload 640x480 pictures, not the 
> > > 1600x1200 originals), then the Imagemagick package's 'convert' 
> > > utility is great. convert -resize 640x480 original.jpg new.jpg
> > >
> > > But those are just examples of using the more powerful 
> software, not 
> > > simpler software packages. For those, I've tried these recently: 
> > > Pixieplus - a browser and viewer for KDE. Also does rotations and 
> > > other simple transformations. It's in debian-testing. Bad name, 
> > > though.
> > >
> > > Even simpler is kview - It has even fewer functions than 
> MS Paint, 
> > > but it's small and can do crops and rotations.
> > >
> > > I'm sure some others have suggestions, too. I'd recommend 
> spending 
> > > just a little time with The Gimp, though - once you spend 
> a bit of 
> > > time the interface is quite powerful. I do mean a little 
> time, too - 
> > > this isn't vi I'm talking about.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> 
> Regards,
> 
> Graham Brown
> 
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