Re: [hylafax-users] Adding Headers/Footers/Watermarks to inbounds ?

[Chris Parsons <chrisp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have a look at the below link from the list archives. It should give you
some hints of adding headers and footers to inbound faxes. It set up to add
it to them just before printing, but shouldnt require much modification for
your puposes. It adds date/time, faxID and pages / total pages. (all without
the use of M-page)

http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2003-02/msg00300.html

I cant help you with the bordering problems. Is something set to a different
page size? Anyway, I hope the above helps.

And were on about 50,000 so we win!



Chris Parsons
InfoTec Communications.

-----Original Message-----
From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bill Binko
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2004 1:49 PM
To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hylafax-users] Adding Headers/Footers/Watermarks to inbounds?


Hi all,
	I my quest to manage these faxes better, I have come across a
problem that I think should be easier than I'm finding it.

	I need to put either a header, a footer, or a watermark on each
page of a recieved fax along with a coverpage (generated on the receiving
end) with date/caller, etc info on it.  The only info that I NEED on each
page it is the fax id (that is, the number used to create the
"fax#####.tiff" filename).  Other info would be nice (CID name and
recieved date).

(As a side note, I just noticed that we are on id number 11793 after one
year of 3 modems in a server :)  Thanks for the excellent software!)

	I have tried several approaches to this.  Most recently, I have
generated the cover using enscript and then tried to use mpage to put that
file along with the pages from the TIFF into a PS file with a header.  I
have had moderate success.

Here's the chain of pipes (temporary files are actually used in some
places):

#first, we generate a cover page
Text Info (CID, etc) -> enscript -> PS Cover Page -> /tmp/coverfile.$$

#then we convert the TIFF to PS
Fax -> Hylafax -> TIFF -> tiff2ps -> PS Fax Pages -> /tmp/faxfile.$$

#mpage lets us combine them (using -1 for one per sheet) with headers

coverfile + faxfile + header info
            -> mpage -> PS doc with header -> ps2pdf -> Mail + Archive.

The problem is that no matter how I tweak this chain, I either get margins
clipped (via tiff2ps I think), or shrinkage of the page by about 10% (if I
use fax2ps).  I have also seen watermarks under the white image and many
other combinations of bad results.

Should I just be doing this while it's a tiff?  Is there a tool I'm
missing?

Any help would be appreciated.

Bill


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