Re: flexfax: Hylafax working, need related info.

[Phil Abercrombie <PAbercrombie@ptc.com>]

Alan Bunch wrote:
> 
> Greetings most learned list,
> 
> I have Hylafax working on RH5.2 from the RPM.  Getting it working is not the problem. The problem that I
> have is in image generation.  I want to take some ASCII, lineprinter file, and overlay it onto a scanned image,
> purchase order blank.  The result would be a filled PO faxed to a vendor from any random accounting package. I just
> can't beleive that I am the first person in the world to want to do this.
> 
> Any suggestions.
> 
> TIA
> Alan Bunch
> 
> alabun@healthcare.com


I would suggest you play with the postscript.  

If you first convert your scanned image to postscript, then go into the file
and strip out any device control stuff, and -most importantly- the "showpage"
command,  then you can probably just append the output of textfmt to it.

	-phil