Re: [hylafax-users] Half a cover page

[Jaap Winius <jwinius@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>:

> how did you create the cover page?

First I composed a cover page with Tgif, marking all the variables with
XXXX and then exported it as a .ps file. I then used a text editor to
look for stuff like '(XXXX-comments)' and replace it with just
'comments'. Also, I added this macro to the beginning of the file:

   1 setlinejoin
   /nullstring () def
   /IS {
       dup where {
           pop
           load dup nullstring ne {S} {pop} ifelse
       } {pop} ifelse
   } bind def
   /M  { moveto } bind def
   /S { show  } bind def

Finally, I renamed it 'faxcover.ps', saved it in the /etc/hylafax
directory and restarted the Hylafax server.

This all works fine, except that the 'message body', by which I mean
the contents of the email message being sent via Hylafax, does not
begin half way down the page as I would like, but always on the
following page.

> The default cover page on Debian seems to be created directly in
> PostScript. You can look at it and modify it as you like. It's easy
> to understand (if you know some PostScript), not like a document
> created by a printer driver or conversion program.

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about PostScript to make the
modifications to the default Debian cover page that I would like. It
sure would be nice to know how they made it and be able to use the same
applications to modify it myself.

> How do you submit your fax jobs and what do you mean with "message
> body"?

Always with an email gateway using Exim v4.50. With "message body" I
meant the contents of those emails, as well as the message headers
that are associated with them. Perhaps this is not the same as the
'comments' for the cover page?

> I don't think Hylafax itself has a mechanism to continue the
> comments on a second page if it doesn't fit on the cover page.
> Your message will either be printed as comments on the cover
> page (and truncated if it does not fit) or as your real document
> following the cover page.

Actually, I'm now thinking that my earlier remarks concerning the
default Debian cover page were not entirely accurate. My statement was
based on a previous experience that I had about a year ago when I
received a fax with a Debian cover page on an old fax machine that uses
a roll of thermal paper. I still have the result: the second page
starts just below the address area and that second bold, horizontal
line on the cover page. The entire fax, message and all, is a little
less than the length of an A4. This is not a result that I could ever
duplicate with one of my custom cover pages. However, if run the same
test over again today, but instead receive the fax with my own Hylafax
system, save the file and print it out on a laser printer using kfax, I
get two separate pages: a cover page and a message page!

In other words, perhaps my assumption that it's possible to create a
half cover page was based a somewhat misleading experience (for me, at
least) involving the default Debian cover page and an old thermal fax.

Jaap

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