Re: [hylafax-users] status line

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christophorus Laube wrote:

> My only problem is that my old fax printed a status head line on every 
> page of every fax it received which contains date, CallerID, page 
> number and some more information.


An example of how to do something like this can be found here:

 http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/tweaking.php#ss6.12

Look specifically for the part, "Here is an example customization 
<http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/misc/overlay-recv-inc.sh> which 
shows how to overlay data on-top of all pages of a received fax image 
before mailing the resulting image off as a PDF."

Undoubtedly you'll want to customize that.  The example is merely an 
example.  You'll particularly want to notice this part in the include 
script:

   tiffsplit /var/spool/hylafax/$FILE
   echo $COMMID | textfmt -B > overlay.ps
   for PAGEFILE in *.tif; do
       tiff2ps $PAGEFILE | sed 's/^showpage//g' >> finaldoc.ps
       cat overlay.ps >> finaldoc.ps
   done
   ps2pdf finaldoc.ps finaldoc.pdf
   encode finaldoc.pdf

The "overlay.ps" file is a Postscript file that you will need to 
generate that includes the data that you want to place over the fax 
image - and that's where you'll need to probably do most of your 
customization (creating the overlay the way you want it, with the data 
you need).  Again, that's mostly just a sample to get you started.

Lee.

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