[asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

[Craig Guy]

Not necessarily - if you set your iaxmodems to only produce G4 encoded tiffs
you can then use something like c42pdf http://c42pdf.ffii.org/ which
essentially copies the tiff image data into a pdf container.  Lightning
fast, quality is preserved, very little memory usage and very little cpu.  I
believe that the tiff2pdf binary in later versions of libtiff does a similar
thing.

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro
Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2008 12:03 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Steve Totaro
<stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Lee Howard <faxguy at howardsilvan.com>
wrote:
>> Steve Totaro wrote:
>>> You may need an additional
>>> server just to handle faxes if you are running many instances as they
>>> are CPU intensive.
>>
>> iaxmodem is not CPU intensive.  100 of them aren't.  You can put that
>> many on a typical modern machine and have them all faxing simultaneously
>> and not see a dent in CPU due to iaxmodem.
>>
>> Lee.
>>
>
> Hylafax.  Iaxmodem doesn't do much good by itself.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>

Probably has more to do with PDFs than tiffs too.  I always go with PDF.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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