[hylafax-users] Sending png files in notifications

[The Cardassian Scot <cardassianscot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've adapted my faxrcvd file to send a png image of the first page of a 
fax with my pdf email. This allows the recipiant to preview the fax 
before they decide to open the the pdf document, we get a lot of junk 
faxes which we don't want to open. Why just the first page? Well if it 
is a mutlipage fax you could attach a png file for each page but then to 
print it you would need to open each png file seperately and print them, 
annoying if you have a 20 page fax. Or you could join all the images 
together so that you have a long image but this causes problems if you 
want to print again. In my experience the best format for printing 
multipage documents (on windows clients) as is, is pdf. Therefore I 
include the fist page as a png image, which is displayed in Mozilla and 
attach the pdf file which can be opened and printed if required.

For those that are interested, here's the modifications.

You need the ImageMagick package installed, then replace the line

$RM -f $FILE.ps $FILE.pdf 2>/dev/null

with the following code

echo ""
echo "--$MIMEBOUNDARY"
echo "Content-Type: image/png; name=\"$FILE.png\""
echo "Content-Description: FAX document"
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: $ENCODING"
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$FILE.png\""
echo ""
convert $FILE.ps $FILE.png
if test -f $FILE.png.0
then
   mv $FILE.png.0 $FILE.png
   $RM -f $FILE.png.*
fi
$MIMENCODE $FILE.png 2>/dev/null
$RM -f $FILE.ps $FILE.pdf $FILE.png 2>/dev/null


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