The following Document Formats are currently supported by the Document Converter:
| DOCX | These documents are processed either with Microsoft Word 2007 or with an earlier Word release supported by the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, which must then be installed. |
| XLSX | These documents are processed either with Microsoft Excel 2007 or with an earlier Excel release supported by the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, which must then be installed. |
| PPTX | These documents are processed either with Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 or with an earlier Powerpoint release supported by the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, which must then be installed. |
| PDF | These documents are normally processed with Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Version 4 or later is required. Specifying one of the options GSPDF, GS300, or GS400 will instead use Ghostscript. Ghostscript converts documents directly to faxable TIF format, without the use of the CopiaFacts Document Converter printer driver (FFCVRT). |
| PS | If you have specified the use of Ghostscript, you can also convert PostScript documents direct to fax format. Ghostscript converts documents directly to faxable TIF format, without the use of the CopiaFacts Document Converter printer driver. |
| XIF | These image documents (eXtended Image File format) are processed by default with an internal TIF converter. Specifying an option TIFAcrobat will instead use Acrobat Professional V6, V7 or v8. This extension can also be specified when a TIF document is known to be non-faxable, for example after checking with FAXABLE. See also below. |
| TIF | TIF documents (those not directly faxable) are processed by default with an internal TIF converter. Specifying the option Use_eiStream will instead use eiStream 'Imaging for Windows', and the option Use_ImageMaker will instead use ImageMaker Imaging. Specifying an option TIFAcrobat will instead use Acrobat Professional V6, V7 or v8. See also below. |
| GIF, JPG | The default is to process these documents with an internal converter. Specifying an option Firefox will instead use the Mozilla ActiveX Control. Specifying the option Use_eiStream will instead use eiStream 'Imaging for Windows', and the option Use_ImageMaker will instead use ImageMaker Imaging. Faxable color JPEG files are accepted unchanged if the board supports color faxing. |
| PNG | The default is to process these documents with an internal converter. Specifying an option Firefox will instead use the Mozilla ActiveX Control. |
| HTM, HTML | Web documents are normally processed with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Version 6 or 7 is required. Specfying the option NoIE will instead use an internal HTML processor. Specifying option Firefox will use the Mozilla ActiveX Control. Specifying option HTMLWord will pass the documents to Microsoft Word for rendering. The Document Converter has replaced FFWEB for HTML conversion. |
| XML + XSLT | XML documents are processed with MSXML and then with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Version 6 or 7 of Internet Explorer is required. Specfying the option NoIE will instead use an internal HTML processor. |
For a cross-reference of convert options to CVSINGLE command-line flags, see $convert_options.
Documents for conversion are normally held on the local network. However it is possible to convert documents which are first downloaded from elsewhere using HTTP or FTP protocol. A standard URL starting 'http://' or 'ftp://' as the filename will enable this feature. Note that some servers may be case-sensitive when selecting filenames. A URL pathname will be 'canonicalized' before use (that is, performing tasks such as replacing an embedded blank with "%20"), but may also be specified ready-prepared in this format.
Documents downloaded for conversion using HTTP or FTP are placed in the local Windows temporary folder for conversion and deleted when the conversion is complete.
Handling non-faxable TIF files
TIF format files come in many types and only a very small subset of possible tag settings result in a directly faxable file. The width, height, vertical and horizontal resolution, compression, compression options and bits-per-pixel values all have to be examined to determine whether the file can be submitted directly for faxing. CopiaFacts now converts some non-faxable TIF files on-the-fly to faxable format. This applies to files with any of the following file properties, and provided the other criteria for faxability are met:
| • | Files with a reduced width in the range 1600 to 1727 pixels inclusive. These files are widened by the addition of a white strip on the right to make them the standard 1728 width. |
| • | Files with multiple encoded strips. These files are rewritten with a single encoded strip. |
| • | Files with LZW or PackBits image compression. These files are rewritten with normal G3 encoding of the image. |
TIF files in landscape format with a height of 1728 pixels are not treated as faxable and not automatically rotated; however such files can be rotated by loading in and saving from FFVIEWER.
If you know the source of a non-faxable TIF file, and that the above fix-ups cannot be applied, it is simplest to rename the file from .TIF to .XIF and add XIF as a $convert_types keyword and as a pre-processing convert type in FFEXTERN. All XIF files can then be processed through Document Converter before transmission. You can establish a workflow using the FAXABLE utility to copy TIF to XIF files if they are non-faxable.
An alternative method is to leave the file extension as .TIF but to add TIF and a $convert_types keyword and 'non-faxable TIF' as a pre-processing convert type in FFEXTERN. This has the disadvantage that every TIF file will be read in full and analysed an extra time as each FS file is loaded, to check whether or not it is faxable. It is therefore not a recommended solution if you have a lot of faxable TIF files and only an occasional non-faxable TIF file.
When you use Document Converter to render non-faxable TIF files to faxable format, you should be aware that the default $convert_options settings (for historical reasons) are usually not the best ones to use. It is recommended that you use the NoI4W keyword to select the internal converter. Many TIF files cannot usefully be converted to faxable format, particularly if color is involved. Copia recommends that you experiment with the available conversion tools and print driver settings before selecting a conversion strategy for non-faxable TIF files.
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