Re: [hylafax-users] Bulk Faxing Like Tobit?

[Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>]

The easiest way to do this would probably be to print to a Postscript 
output file, then use faxcover to merge in the "custom" information.

You would need to hand-edit the postscript of the "base" document to
accomplish this, and setting it up originally would be a bit of a pain in
the butt, but once it was set up for a particular document it would be easy.

"faxcover" would then be used to produce both the cover page and the actual
document (two invocations), with the output then being queued via sendfax.

Not horribly difficult to accomplish.

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:58:35AM -0000, Noel Kelly wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a new Hylafax server which we are planning to use to complement our
> existing Tobit Faxware server.  The Tobit server runs under Windows 2000 and
> continually gets 'jammed' when the marketing people run a bulk fax job.
> 
> The new Hylafax server has two Eicon BRI server cards and everything is
> working great.
> 
> My question is to do with how to submit bulk fax jobs to Hylafax.  Using
> Tobit our marketing people can do a mail merge from Word and insert the fax
> number as a merged field at the top of each page, bracketed with '@@' like
> this:
> 
> @@0044203030303@@
> 
> The whole mail merge document is then 'printed' Tobit  from Word and Tobit
> will automatically dial the number it finds bracketed at  the top of each
> page.  Thus each fax recipient receives a personalised fax page.
> 
> Is there something like this I can do under Hylafax?  I have looked at
> 'sendfax' and 'faxcover' but these only allow a custom cover page rather
> than the actual fax content.  I have looked at Cypheus and WHFC but they do
> not seem to interpret the document being printed to them.
> 
> I can see a way to do it might be to produce the TIFF file from the merged
> Word document (or an individual TIFF file for each page) and then try and
> marry each page up with a list of fax numbers but there is too much chance
> for someone to end up receiving a fax addressed to someone else.
> 
> Any suggestions would be most welcome,
> 
> Thanks,
> Noel
> 
> 
> 
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