Re: [hylafax-users] Somewhat OT: Need to overlay data onto form prior to faxing

[Steven Kurylo <skurylo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I can probably learn some postscript, and hack up a program to this, but
> before I set about re-inventing the wheel, does anyone know if such a tool
> already exists?  I would think this to be a popular feature if it were added
> to Hylafax as part of the sendfax program.
>  
I was previously looking into this but I couldn't find any tools that 
did a proper job of it.  Learning to write/manipulating PS seemed to be 
to large of a task as well.  In the end I took my ascii data, converted 
it into XML, and created a XSL template that resembled the printed 
form.  Right now the users pull up the XML file in their web browser to 
confirm its what they want, and then use a hylafax client to send it to 
hylafax; this way the browser and printer driver do the conversion to 
PS.  If I wanted to automate the process I could have used FOP 
(http://xml.apache.org/fop/).

I guess in the end I was more willing to learn XML than to learn PS.

--
Steven Kurylo


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