Re: [hylafax-users] **ANNOUNCE** Second release candidate of 4.3.1 now available

["Darren Nickerson" <darren.nickerson@xxxxxxxx>]

"Joe" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That's great!  Does anyone know if there will ever be anything in the
> works for (a more simple) template based cover page.  I myself find
> the ps cover page very difficult to deal with.

You're not alone in that Joe, that postscript coverpage is definitely a sore 
spot among developers and users alike. The current approach uses some of the 
features of the postscript language itself to do the merge/overlay of the 
job-specific information. It can be argued that it's effective, efficient 
and in some ways even elegant, but it's mostly just seen as arcane, 
counter-intuitive and nasty. As a community we've looked at things like PDF 
forms (using Adobe's FDF toolkit) and various other things in the past, but 
I don't think anything better has ever been discovered/suggested to date - 
at least nothing for which there's source code available. Adobe's forms 
aren't useful unless you use their rendering engine (Acrobat reader, for 
instance).

This would be a great project for someone looking to make a significant 
contribution to HylaFAX!

-Darren 


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