Re: [hylafax-users] Merging FaxCover with main fax.

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.11.05 00:34 Olly wrote:

> The WHFC client does not have the ability to send a FaxCover as a
> document.

WHFC is open-source, though.

> Even if it did I still don't see the assurance that we need regarding
> the
> FaxCover variables being filled in when the server receives it as a
> document.

Sigh.  Maybe I'm just not being clear enough.  So, again...

The server does not produce the fax cover sheet.  The client does.  Any 
"fields"/"variables" of which you speak are populated and handled 
completely on the client side.

Don't believe me?  Then submit a fax for yourself with coversheet with 
the "date+time" on it to hfaxd, but do not have faxq running.  An hour 
or so later start up faxq and let the fax transmit, and then go take a 
look at that fax that was received.  Note that the date+time indicates 
the time that it was submitted by the client, not the time that faxq 
prepared it or faxsend sent it.  Why?  Because the coversheet was 
imaged by the client program, not the server.

To the server there is no difference between a "document" and a 
"coversheet" except that it will always transmit the coversheet first 
and will delete it once it is transmitted.  faxq deletes it before the 
fax is complete.  It's gone before any "scripts" are run that can be 
"hooked".

> I guess it must do, or you probably wouldn't have suggested
> it,
> but guessing isn't enough to send me off looking for source codes, and
> hacking, recompiling WHFC etc.
>
> It would be better for me to know how to hook into the scripts just
> before
> the faxcover was deleted,

Hook into what scripts, exactly?  There are none to hook that occur 
between the send and the delete.  Now, if you want to "hook in" before 
the send, then you could write your own faxsend wrapper and set the 
FaxSendCmd in your config file to your wrapper script.

> and then I could convert, or copy & convert,
> that
> to a PDF at that point. Unless you have a better idea of course.

I've suggested Pyla.

Lee.

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