Re: [hylafax-users] Half a cover page

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2005.11.03 16:29 schrieb(en) Jaap Winius:
> Quoting Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Check configuration entries PageChop and PageChopThreshold.
>
> Can't find either of these anywhere. That remote system will be
> using the default settings.

According to the man page the default for "PageChop" is "last", which  
means only the last page will be chopped. To make Hylafax chop other  
pages you would have to set it to "all".

Don't know if the default changed
> > If this still does not work it may depend on the BoundingBox
> > of your cover page document.
>
> My custom cover pages always have:
>
>    %%PageBoundingBox: 27 648 268 808

On a4 paper this is a rectangle in the upper left corner with height  
69mm and width 95mm

> The current cover.templ in /etc/hylafax has:
>
>    %%BoundingBox: 21 3 588 788

On A4 paper this is a rectangle in the lower left corner with height  
278mm and width 207mm (nearly paper width).

The values are the same in my default cover page template. (from  
official Debian package) This has black lines not far from the bottom  
of the page. So there will not be any whitespace to chop off.

> Maybe it would be an interesting idea to try and modify the
> /etc/hylafax/faxmail.ps file. It looks real simple.
[...]
> Does this sound feasible to you?

I just tried the faxmail program and found out that this file will be  
inserted at the end of the Prolog before an "end" statement which  
belongs to a
/$printdict 50 dict def $printdict begin

Maybe you could insert some code to redefine the "showpage" statement  
that it writes your logo/header on top of the page before printing the  
page.

To make some space for your stuff you should reduce the page size or  
change the top margin in faxmail.conf.
(I just tried to do this but changing the top or bottom margin did not  
work for me, I only managed to change the left and right margin. Maybe  
I did something wrong.)

But I think you can only write some static contents in your header. I  
don't see a possibility to get variables like receiver's fax number etc.


Bodo

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