Re: [hylafax-users] Coverpage Creation?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

To make a custom coverpage, design it in something like tgif (Linux) or MS
Word (Windows).  Any of the variable information, such as "To Whom:",
should be marked such that it will be easy to find, i.e. "XXXX-To".  Then
you need to export it into EPS.  Doing that in tgif is fairly
straight-forward, but in Windows, you need to set up the Apple Laserwriter
printer to print to a file, and then you need to change the properties of
that driver to print in editable, plain-jane EPS format.  Then you print
the document to a file.  Then you go through your created EPS file and
replace the appropriate marked (XXXX) lines with the correct variable name
without the parenthesis, i.e. "(XXXX-To)" becomes "to".  See 'man faxcover'
for details on this.

The reason that you're having trouble with the make_faxcover utility found
in the HOW-TO is because it was created based on an older version of
faxcover.  Changes were made, and the faxcover documentation never changed
because of anticipated reworkings, but these reworkings just barely got done.

So, if you'd like faxcover to work as documented, and such that
make_faxcover works, then grab CVS (you've done that) and patch it with the
last patch posted at:
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81

Lee.

At 01:35 PM 1/10/01 -0800, Paul Williams wrote:
>      I'm using  HylaFAX from the CVS tree dated 1/5/2001, and WHFC 1.0.8
>which works great for  sending documents without a fax cover.      I have
>also had no luck in getting the ps files to  convert to tiff files using
>ghostscript, but that's most likely due to the fact  I have no clue how to
>operate the silly thing.     Thanks!   -- EMAIL ERROR LOG -- Your facsimile
>job to 8931774 was not sent because document  conversion
>  The output from the converter program  was:
>
>Error: /undefined in pagesave
>Operand stack:
>
>Execution  stack:
>                                                    --nostringval--
>Dictionary stack:
>             --dict:3/200(L)--
>Current allocation mode is  local
>Last OS error: 2
>Current file position is 109727
>GNU Ghostscript:  Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>/bin/cat: write error: Broken  pipe
>
>
>Check any PostScript documents for non-standard fonts and  invalid
constructs.
>
>    ---- Unsent job status  ----
>
>   Destination:  8931774
>         JobID:  12
>       GroupID:  12
>        Sender: Paul Williams  
>      Mailaddr: paul@slaterandson.com
>Submitted From:  chad.office.slaterandson.com
>    Page Width: 200  (mm)
>   Page Length: 264 (mm)
>    Resolution: 196  (lpi)
>        Status: Error: /undefined in  pagesave
>Operand stack:
>
>Execution stack:
>                                                   --nostringval--
>Dictionary stack:
>             --dict:3/200(L)--
>Current allocation mode is  local
>Last OS error: 2
>Current file position is 109727
>GNU Ghostscript:  Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>/bin/cat: write error: Broken  pipe
>
>       Dialogs: 0 (exchanges with  remote device)
>         Dials: 0  (consecutive failed calls to  destination)
>         Calls: 0 (total  phone calls placed)
>         Pages: 0  (pages transmitted)
>      TotPages: 0 (total pages  to transmit)
>      Attempts: 0 (attempts to send  current page)
>        Dirnum: 0 (directory  of next page to send)
>
>    ---- Documents submitted for  transmission ----
>
>The following documents were submitted for transmission  and are
>available on the server for reuse until they are  automatically
>  Documents may also be  manually
>removed using the faxrm command; consult faxrm(1) for  information.
>
>                  Size Type
>       115338  PostScript cover  page
>        54960  PostScript
> 



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