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Re: [hylafax-users] Blank lines at top of page.



Lee I changed the lines to this:

> -----------------
> 0       string          WNGZWZSS        error   Wingz spreadsheet
> 0       string          #Inventor V     error   IRIS Inventor file
> >15     string          binary          error   binary IRIS Inventor file
> >15     string          ascii           ps      %F/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold\
>                                                 -Ml=0.4in, t=0.25in, b=0.10in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i
> #
> # This causes anything else with ascii-only data to be treated as text.
> #
> 0       ascii           x               ps      %F/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold\
>                                                 -Ml=0.4in t=0.25in, b=0.10in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i


However, the changes had no effect -- they did not change anything at
all.  Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

Richard


Lee Howard wrote:
> 
> At 11:07 PM 4/10/01 -0700, Richard Reina wrote:
> >I have had Hylafax for a couple of weeks now.  It works great thanks to
> >some help from Lee.  However, when I send out a simple text file,
> >hylafax leaves about 5-6 blank lines between the top of the page --
> >between the "From: Joe Blow Wed Apr 11 09:29:16 2001" and the the actual
> >text at the top of my file.  Is there any way to reduce the number of
> >these blank lines so that my text file can fit more on one page?
> 
> Hi Richard!  Good to hear things are going well.
> 
> Look in your /usr/share/fax/typerules file, and you'll see this:
> 
> -----------------
> 0       string          WNGZWZSS        error   Wingz spreadsheet
> 0       string          #Inventor V     error   IRIS Inventor file
> >15     string          binary          error   binary IRIS Inventor file
> >15     string          ascii           ps      %F/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold\
>                                                 -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i
> #
> # This causes anything else with ascii-only data to be treated as text.
> #
> 0       ascii           x               ps      %F/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold\
>                                                 -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i
> ----------------
> 
> sendfax utilizes typerules to determine the method to convert the submitted
> document or data stream into a suitable facsimile format (Postscript or
> TIFF).  In the case of ASCII data, it's using 'textfmt' as seen above in
> two lines.
> 
> If you look at 'man textfmt' you'll see that the -M option controls the
> margins.  You'll need to adjust the lines above in your typerules file,
> test and see, but you'll probably want to do something like:
> -Ml=0.4in,t=0.25in
> 
> Lee.


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