Re: [hylafax-users] Template

["Paul D. Kraus" <pkraus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, your vsifax program is doing that "major pain in the behind" for 
you, and so that's why you have to pay money for it.

[Paul Kraus] I never implied that the solution needed to be free. Just that
I needed a solution to easily create templates that could have variables
placed in them that a delimited file could be piped to.  I could write it
but then I would need to maintain it. It would be nice to be able to
delegate the form generation to our graphic design team. Take there form put
in the variable place holders and then just pipe my output to it and then to
send fax. I would rather buy a product if one existed. Our design time uses
the adobe sweet but when I have them create me a mock up PO for instance and
the save it in post script form I can't find anything in the text file to
indicate text that should be there. For instance if the form had the words
'PO DATE:' the ps file prints that, the pdf shows it, but when I edit the
document and do a search the words PO DATE do not exist.

Hylafax is an incredible program and the fact that it's free is just
amazing. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing things the hard way. That
some of you others didn't already go down this road and found a solution
(commercial or not).

I need to be able to fax company PO's, invoices,  insert business form here.
It needs to be versatile and preferably I should be able to delegate the
design to the appropriate department.


If you have an ASCII page with data on it in the proper locations and if 
you have a corresponding template file with the fields on it in the 
proper locations, then it's a fairly straight-forward step to merge the 
two together. Search the mailing list archives for "watermark" and 
"overlay".
[Paul Kraus] I had the same thoughts I was hoping there (our graphic design
team) postscript files would be more readable/searchable then I could write
up some simple Perl scripts to insert my variables as needed. Not the case
:( I will look into your suggestions. Thanks for the input.

Paul





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