Re: [hylafax-users] Bulk Faxing Like Tobit?

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@yahoo.com>]

I can't remember when, but I think someone posted a
link in the mailling list about Wrod Macros for this
kind of task.

--- Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote:
> The easiest way to do this would probably be to
> print to a Postscript 
> output file, then use faxcover to merge in the
> "custom" information.
> 
> You would need to hand-edit the postscript of the
> "base" document to
> accomplish this, and setting it up originally would
> be a bit of a pain in
> the butt, but once it was set up for a particular
> document it would be easy.
> 
> "faxcover" would then be used to produce both the
> cover page and the actual
> document (two invocations), with the output then
> being queued via sendfax.
> 
> Not horribly difficult to accomplish.
> 
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> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:58:35AM -0000, Noel Kelly
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a new Hylafax server which we are planning
> to use to complement our
> > existing Tobit Faxware server.  The Tobit server
> runs under Windows 2000 and
> > continually gets 'jammed' when the marketing
> people run a bulk fax job.
> > 
> > The new Hylafax server has two Eicon BRI server
> cards and everything is
> > working great.
> > 
> > My question is to do with how to submit bulk fax
> jobs to Hylafax.  Using
> > Tobit our marketing people can do a mail merge
> from Word and insert the fax
> > number as a merged field at the top of each page,
> bracketed with '@@' like
> > this:
> > 
> > @@0044203030303@@
> > 
> > The whole mail merge document is then 'printed'
> Tobit  from Word and Tobit
> > will automatically dial the number it finds
> bracketed at  the top of each
> > page.  Thus each fax recipient receives a
> personalised fax page.
> > 
> > Is there something like this I can do under
> Hylafax?  I have looked at
> > 'sendfax' and 'faxcover' but these only allow a
> custom cover page rather
> > than the actual fax content.  I have looked at
> Cypheus and WHFC but they do
> > not seem to interpret the document being printed
> to them.
> > 
> > I can see a way to do it might be to produce the
> TIFF file from the merged
> > Word document (or an individual TIFF file for each
> page) and then try and
> > marry each page up with a list of fax numbers but
> there is too much chance
> > for someone to end up receiving a fax addressed to
> someone else.
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be most welcome,
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Noel
> > 
> > 
> > 
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