Re: [hylafax-users] hylafax and bulkfax with sambaprinter

["Chris Weiss" <cweiss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 12, 2008 4:08 AM, Christian <christian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a problem with bulk faxing over Word2003.
>
> We want to send bulk fax over Word2003 using the circular letter function
> and printing over a sambaprinter to hylafax (sambafax script from the
> hylafax help).
> The problem is, that word creates one document with several pages,
> including more than one "Fax-Nr" entries to print the job. Sambafax finds
> several Faxnumbers and creates one line with all numbers and send all pages
> to this number (like this:  fax number 04043277xxx0421655xxx0351810xxx
> (replaced the last 3 numbers with an x))
>
> The letter has normaly one page and 3 recipients.
> The postscript doc delivered to sambafax is only one file with 3 pages.
>
> Our salesteam wants to send personal faxes, so a solution with whfc is not
> practicable.
>


just to be clear, and to refresh me on how Word works, if you were to
print to a normal printer, you'd get one print job with 3 pages, each
page with a different reciepients personal info on it, correct?

assuming correct, what you want hylax, or sambafax, to do is to detect
when there is a new "Fax-Nr" in a document and break the document up
at that page so that you end of with 3 different fax jobs, each to a
different recipient and each being a separate page drawn from the
original document?  hopefully stated like this, you see how
complicated this is.  I don't think any print-to-fax solution is going
to handle this for you automatically, the users would need to print
each page one at a time so each is a separate job, or train Word to do
it for them, maybe with a macro.  I think coding a Word macro to print
each page on it's own would be much easier and more reliable than
trying to detect fax-nr and break apart a postscript document in just
the right places and then rebuild it keep the formating.


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