Re: [hylafax-users] Cover Page Issues

[Giulio Orsero <giulioo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/19/05, Mason Sanders <mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> matter which method I use, when I use faxcover with the cover sheet and dump
> the output to a file, the words and/or numbers that are inserted by faxcover
> look horrible.  The letters are either spread too far apart or jumbled atop
> one another.  Do I need to use a specific font?  I am running Fedora Core 4

Depending on the driver/program you use, the ps will have absolute
positioning set for all chars.
So, if you choose a proportional font and put XXXX and then some
spaces, the ps will have absolute positioning for those chars and when
your variables are inserted in place theirs letters will be spaced as
the original letters would be creating very nasty effects. If you use
a fixed-pitch font the problem shouldn't occur.
You should be able to avoid this by deleting by hand the absolute
positioning instructions in the ps file so that ghostscript falls back
to calculating char spacing runtime ufing font metric information.

If you have problems try attaching coverpage template and coverpage as produced.

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