A few days ago I had the need to personalized/create a cover page for use with Avantfax, the famous web interface to Hylafax. I had little time to use the service provided by the site Avantfax itself.
I thought it was easier to create cover page, but it is really a nightmare !
If you want to create a text-only cover page, the most convenient is to use a page created in html: to make sure everything works you MUST install html2ps (see link).
Att.: I think that should work with pages with pictures, but I could not get it to work ! I have installaed all the dependencies (ImageMagick, etc etc) but…. nothing…… I have obtained only text in my fax, all the image disappered !
To obtain cover page with images, I have used Freehand from adobe: in that page I have used the next value.
XXXX-to
XXXX-to-company
XXXX-to-location
XXXX-to-voice-number
XXXX-to-fax-number
XXXX-regarding
XXXX-from
XXXX-from-company
XXXX-from-location
XXXX-from-voice-number
XXXX-from-fax-number
XXXX-page-count
XXXX-todays-date
XXXX-comments0 … XXXX-comments30
At the end I have save it in freehand format, and exported the file in encapsulated postscript (.eps) (NOT “encapsulated postscript wtih TIFF Preview”), and I have renamed the extension of the file eps in ps: you have the brand new cover for Avantfax (maybe…) !
You can run into a problem ! Some field won’t be reported correctly.
If all works fine if you launch
grep XXXX cover.ps
You MUST obtain someting like next.
0 0 32 0 0 (To / Company: XXXX-to-company) ts 0 0 32 0 0 (Fax number: XXXX-to-fax-number) ts 0 0 32 0 0 (Date: XXXX-todays-date) ts 0 0 32 0 0 (From: XXXX-from) ts
…with all the field used in the cover page. If you do not get all the fields used then the cover-page , that page will not work properly !
My real case:
>grep XXXX cover.ps 0 0 32 0 0 (:XXXX-todays-date) ts 0 0 32 0 0 (XXXX-regarding) ts 0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (: XXXX-p) ts 0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (XXXX-comment) ts 0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (XXXX-comment) ts 0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (XXXX-comment) ts 0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (XXXX-comment) ts
The field XXXX-page-count and XXXX-comments0 etc etc disappeared !
To solve I have opened the file with nano in Linux, and I have modified like next.
Old
....
{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (: XXXX-p) ts
-0.2159 0 rmoveto }
true
[0 0 0 1]sts
{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (age-count) ts
}
....
New
....
{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (: XXXX-p) ts
-0.2159 0 rmoveto }
true
[0 0 0 1]sts
{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 ( ) ts
}
...........
The same for XXXX-comment (for all the field related to comment)
Old
....
{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
1816.7482 1930.0422 m
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (XXXX-comment) ts
-0.2159 0 rmoveto }
true
[0 0 0 1]sts
{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (s0) ts
}
....
New
....{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
1816.7482 1930.0422 m
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 (XXXX-comments0) ts
-0.2159 0 rmoveto }
true
[0 0 0 1]sts
{
f1 [18 0 0 18 0 0] makesetfont
0 0 32 -0.058502 0 ( ) ts
}....
Linkografia
http://www.avantfax.com
http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3645&page=12
http://www.adobe.com/products/freehand/
