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

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe wrote:

> Lee Howard wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > Yeah it's a bit cumbersome.  Yeah reading PostScript is not 
> > particularly intuitive.  Yeah there are problematic variants of 
> > PostScript.  However, right now - other than writing our own 
> > cross-platform GUI coverpage creation program - it seems to be the 
> > best approach.
> >
> > Lee.
>
> Could the Open Document Format be used in some way?  Use Openoffice to
> create templates... leave tags where you want them...  parse the odt
> file, substitute your data for the tags...  convert odt to ps (don't
> know how that will be done). 


Show us how this (both parsing and format conversion) would be done, and 
I can figure out how to get it into faxcover.  Then together we can 
evaluate how well that works as a solution.  On the surface, however, I 
don't see how we'd be able to convert from odt to ps/pdf without 
introducing a dependency on some OpenOffice compatibility library or 
something.

Lee.


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