Re: [hylafax-users] How to perform mail-merge for a postscript document to fax?

[Deven Phillips <dphillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos, et. al.,

   I developed a PostScript document template by creating it in 
OpenOffice and then printing it to a PostScript file. I then wrote a 
script (in our case PHP) to generate PostScript which "draws" the 
required information on top of the postscript template. We use this to 
generate customer invoices of which we fax about 1000-1500 daily. The 
specifics of how to accomplish this are going to vary a great deal based 
on this intended application. In our case, we had to write code to 
generate the postscript in such a way as to draw rows and columns with 
item details and price breakdowns. It took a lot of time and effort. The 
best place to start it by trying your hand at learning some PostScript 
language. From there you have to then figure out how to reliably 
generate the PostScript from a program. I have considered using the 
iText library to rewrite my application, but if it isn't broken, I don't 
want to fix it.

Deven Phillips, CISSP, CCNA

Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote:
> Hi Siri
>
> El Lunes, 16 de Febrero de 2009, Siri Vias Khalsa escribió:
>   
> > This would allow you to write a script that would pull the personalized
> > info from a file or a database, and create a custom fax to each of them.
> > Sent from mobile phone
> >
> >     
>
> Ah, ok, Then I need to read this in more deep
>
> Many Thanks
>
>
>   


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