flexfax: faxcover questions ....

[Johan du Buson <dubuson.johan@columbus.co.za>]

Hi all,

We have recently installed HylaFAX (hylafax-4.1beta1-1rh6.rpm) on Redhat6.0
(2.2.5-15) to evaluate and possibly propose as a solution for our company's
faxing problems.

So far it has been excelent!  To round off the solution well, I decided to
create a custom faxcover to look exactly like our existing one (designed in
MSWord).  I used tgif to re-draw.  It works well and looks good.

I have the following questions:
* According to the faxcover(1) man page I can add numerous symbols to the
faxcover (like from-voice-number) but there is no command-line switch to
pass this value (and others).  Is there a way for me to pass the following
parameters to faxcover:
 from-voice-number
 from-fax-number

* We have two fields on our custom cover page that is not incorporated in
the faxcover command.  Is there possibly a way to add custom field
definitions (possibly 3 or 4) and command line switches to pass this to
faxcover command.

* My own workstation Redhat6.0/hylafax-4.0pl2-3rh5 vs. the fax server
Redhat6.0/hylafax-4.1beta1-1rh6
The 4.1b1 seems to be statically linked and 4.0pl2-3 dynamically.
The problem I have is that the coverpage.ps I created contains multiple
(25) "commentX" fields.  When using the faxcover binary on my workstation
(with the -m 26) switch it works fine, displaying all comment lines.  But
when I use the exact same coverpage.ps file on the server (4.1b1) the
faxcover command outputs a postscript document with errors - when viewing
it with gs :  "Error: /undefined in comments10"  I did make sure that I did
run the faxcover command with the "-m 26" switch.

* My last question also relates to the comments part of the coverpage.  As
I see, the comment string is broken down into shorter strings with a
maximum length.  Is it possible to specify this length?  On the default
cover page the font size is HUGE when printing the comments, on our page it
is quite small.  The comments on our cover page does not even reach 1/3 of
the way accross the page.

LASTLY I am extremely impressed with this product and all the bits and
pieces that surround it.  Thank you (all) for contributing to something
really worthwile.

Johan du Buson
System Software Specialist (Networks)
Columbus Stainless, South Africa
mailto:dubuson.johan@columbus.co.za