Re: [hylafax-users] Half a cover page

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2005.10.29 00:39 schrieb(en) Jaap Winius:
> 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.
>
> Quoting Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > 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?

Hello Jaap,

as I already wrote:

> > 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.

I think it would be possible to create a program that does what you  
want but it doesn't work with the default Hylafax and mail-to-fax stuff.

But you probably will have to make it yourself (or find someone who can  
do it for you)

> 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.

I think the application they used to create the cover page was a text  
editor. The cover page document  looks like hand-written PostScript.
(PostScript is a programming language similar to forth with special  
operators to draw an image or write text.)

> 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.
[...]
> 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.

You could ask the sender how he sent this document.
I guess he created a job without "real" document and wrote all his  
message as comments on the cover page.


Bodo

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