Re: [hylafax-users] Printing a custom header on each fax

[John Davis <johnd@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim Nagy wrote:
> I have set up hylafax and am about ready to deploy it.  For now, we are 
> going to print all incoming faxes on a shared printer on the network.  I 
> would like to have something like, “Linux Fax Server” printed at the top 
> of each fax.  We don’t want users getting confused about what they 
> printed and what has come in as a fax.  I’ve found that this is not a 
> feature of hylafax, as the header string is passed from the sending fax 
> machine.  I was wondering if anyone has found a way to do this anyway.
>
>  
>
> I have the following set up in my faxrcvd script:
>
>  
>
> /usr/local/bin/tiff2ps -a $FILE | lpr –Pmain-printer || \
>
>                 /usr/local/bin/tiff2ps -a $FILE | lpr –Pbackup-printer || \
>
>                 mutt -s "ERROR Printing" admin-email < $ERRORFILE
>
> cp $FILE /mnt/newfaxes || (cp $FILE /lostfaxes && \
>
>                 mutt -s "ERROR copying" admin-email < $ERRORFILE2)
>
>  
>
> I have tried sending tiff2ps first to “pr,” but that doesn’t work 
> because it isn’t an ascii file.
>
>  
>
> I tried
>
> Echo “Linux Fax Server” > lpr && tiff2ps …etc
>
> This printed “Linux Fax Server” all by itself, and then printed the fax 
> normally on the next page.  Is there a way to have them print on the 
> same page?  First print “Linux Fax Server” and then print the fax on top 
> of it on the same page?  I just need some kind of a way to differentiate 
> a fax from a user printed document.
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim

I print a timestamp on each document by using annotate from imagemagick, 
which is free. I convert the fax to a png first, write to it, then 
convert it to a pdf. Here's the command I use to write my text:

/usr/local/bin/mogrify -font helvetica -pointsize 30 -gravity south 
-annotate 0 "$TIMESTAMP" $1.png

The $1.png is a parameter passed to the script. This prints my timestamp 
at the bottom of the page. You can change the $TIMESTAMP variable to 
whatever you want.



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John Davis

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