Re: [hylafax-users] Do I have to look for other solutions just because of a coverpage?

[Jim Neff <jneff@ABICORUSA.com>]

> Im working for a advertisement company with about 25 employers 
> using both mac and pc. Someone requested a network based 
> soulution to send faxes since we have a four stair building and I 
> found a old USR Robotic medem lying around, connected it to my 
> linux box running redhat 6.2 console only (It's a server, so why the 
> heck should I use X?). Installed HylaFax with a breeze, configured 
> a samba solution with the Respond software and about three ours 
> since the request took place I printed my first fax from my Win2000 
> machine. 
> 

Wow, talk about response time.

> The I added the init.d to support the old port for macFLEX and even 
> that run smothley. Now there's just one problem, as working for a 
> advertisement company we are very consern about the looks of 
> things and since this faxcover.ps isn't editable with anything else 
> then this tiff modifier that only works under X-windows I have spent 
> the last 24 hours trying to find a diffrent solution (and 
> yes, I know I 
> can replace the logo in the template. Of course I read the Faq and 
> HOWTO:s. But that don't make me able to compleatly alter the 
> looks of it just like I wan't to.). The most satisfying this 
> far is to 
> make a .prn file from word using Apple LaserWriter. But then I can't 
> alter it for the faxcover macros too work. Now people are starting to 
> look for windows solutions, please help me show them the 
> usefullness of Linux and GNU. How do I make my totally own 
> faxcover without having X, knowing PostScript Hacking, knowing 
> TeX? Whay can't someone with the knowledge just make some 
> covertion tool that can convert from Adobe PostScript files 
> generated by most PC and Mac applications?

I posted a fairly lengthy instruction for producing your own coverpages
several days ago.  I'm sure somebody has a better, easier solution, but I
could not get latex or make fax cover (or whatever it's called) to compile
on my system.  Here is a copy of my post

Create in Word (or your favorite word processor) the cover page that you
want.  Where you want the user supplied information such as To: and From:
put in some distiguishing text like XXX-To  or something like that.  So that
it looks something like this in the word processor:

	To:  XXX-To
	From:  XXX-From
	pagecount:  XXX-PageCount

...and so on.  The fields that faxcover uses can be found in the man page so
you can take your pick from there what you want to appear on your cover
page.  Save your document as a post script file.  I used the post script
driver found on adobe's web site.
http://www.adobe.com/products/printerdrivers/main.php I had to dig around a
bit for it, but they do offer it for free.  You can put whatever else on the
page you want like logos.  

Next, open the document that you just created in a plain-text editor.  I
used Microsoft's Word pad because notepad did not support the
Carriage-Return characters generated by Adobe's Post Script driver.  

First we have to enter in some code into your post script file.  I inserted
the following:

1 setlinejoin
/nullstring () def
/IS {
    dup where {
	pop
	load dup nullstring ne {S} {pop} ifelse
    } {pop} ifelse
} bind def
/M  { moveto } bind def /S { show  } bind def
/R { rmoveto } bind def /L { lineto } bind def
/B { newpath 0 0 M 0 1 L 1 1 L 1 0 L closepath } bind def
/CS { closepath stroke } bind def

I placed it right after the %%EndProlog tag and right before the
%%BeginSetup tag.  I'm not exactly sure what this code does but I think it
tells faxcover how to find the input fields in your post script file.

Next, you will be looking for the text that we just created.  So do a find
on XXX-To.  Chances are it will be towards the bottom of the page.  If you
used the Adobe's Post script generator like I did then the text will look
something like this:

L ; 315 1412 M (Sender: )[32 27 31 32 26 26 19  0]xS 
523 1412 M (XXX-From)[43 32 27 31 32 26  0]xS 

Do you see the XXX-From?  That is what we entered from the word processor.
Simply delete the XXX-From and paste this at the end of your line:   /from
IS
So that the finished product looks like this:

 L ; 315 1412 M (Sender: )[32 27 31 32 26 26 19  0]xS 
523 1412 M ()[43 32 27 31 32 26  0]xS /from IS

Next, go through and do the same for all of the other fields.  Delete out
the XXX-Field name (but keep the brackets) and place '/field-name IS' at the
end of the line after the 'xS'.  Your input fields will always be surrounded
by brackets and it's line will end with 'xS'.  It took me a while, and I'm
sure there is a better way to do this, but I couldn't get latex or makecover
to work for me.  Again, you can get the field names from the man pages of
faxcover.

Here are some URLs that helped me
http://www.hylafax.org/howto/tweaking.php#ss6.2
http://www.hylafax.org/HylaFAQ/Q202.php
http://www.hylafax.org/man/faxcover.php

Good luck,
Jim Neff


> 
> Best Regards
> 	Igor Berg Mogielnicki
> ---


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