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IMPORTANT -
THE INFORMATION PRESENTED ON THE USE OF THE COVER
PAGE
EDITOR APPLIES SPECIFICALLY AND ONLY TO ITS USE WITH
NETCFAX.
ITS USE FOR ANY OTHER APPLICATION IS NOT COVERED IN
ANY WAY.
The Microsoft Cover page template editor
is installed by the NetCFax Server and can be run from the 'Fax
Cover Page Template Editor' options provided on the Tools menu of
the fax server. It is not available for download from this web
site.
Creating Cover pages for NetCFax
Because NetCFax uses an industry standard
format for it's fax cover pages (The same one used by Microsoft
and shipped with the Windows 98 operating system), it is very easy
to create your own personal or corporate designs for the fax cover
pages used by NetCFax.
But because we have decided it simply was
not necessary to support all of the data fields that can be added
to a cover page template by the Microsoft cover page editor there
are a few things you need to be aware of.
All of the NetCFax cover pages are located
in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder when you are running the NetCFax
server on most versions of Windows ( The exceptions are Windows 98
or Windows ME, in which case they can be found in WINDOWS\SYSTEM
).
You can use the File - Open menu option to
edit any of the available cover pages by navigating to the
relevant folder and selecting any of the files with .CPE suffixes
you will see listed there. When you have finished editing a file,
it should be saved back to the correct folder automatically, but
it you have perhaps created a totally new cover page, you must
remember to :-
a) Save it to the correct folder as shown
above, and
b) Ensure it uses a recognized name so
that it replaces an existing CPE file in there. If you do not use
one of the four standard names it will definitely not be used !
The four standard cover page names are
:-
CPNORMAL.CPE
CPINFORMATION.CPE
CPCONFIDENTIAL.CPE
CPURGENT.CPE
NB - You CANNOT use your own names for these cover pages, you
must replace one of these original files with your own version once
you are ready to do so.
The following fields types are the ONLY
ones that will be recognized by NetCFax, and therefore have data
in them from the information entered in the fax creation wizard
when you send a fax, so please remember this when designing your
NetCFax cover pages.
If you include any of the other fields
that are available in the cover page editor, they are simply
ignored by NetCFax.
All these fields are found under the
INSERT Menu -
The Recipient entries that
are used are :
Name
Company
Fax Number
The Sender's entries that
are used are :
Name
Company
Fax Number
Voice number (Office)
The Message entries that are
used are :
Subject
Date/Time Sent
Number of pages
Notes/Comments
We believe these are all that are usually
required to create sensible and attractive fax cover pages, and we
hope this enables you to easily create/modify the Fax cover pages
you want NetCFax to use. ?
Download
the
Microsoft Cover
page template editor now...
USING AN IMAGE ON YOUR COVER PAGE (LOGO
ETC)
You can ONLY insert one single image, such as your corporate logo,
but ths may be anywhere at all on the page, and can be sized to
whatever size you want it, including as a complete background over
the whole page if you want to use one to do this. This option is
found on the Insert menu under Object. Select the "Bitmap
image" entry in the list and then click the "Create from
file" radio button at the left to let you browse your hard
disk for the image you want placed on your cover page. We
recommend you do not check the "Show as icon" option, as
that is all that will appear on your fax cover pages.
Check the "Create from file" option at
the left, then click the Browse button that will appear as shown
below, which loads a standard Windows file browse window will be
displayed to let you find any BMP files on your hard disk :-
Simply find any BMP file you want to use and
select it in the normal way. It will be placed in the cover
page editor for you.
NB- Because virtually all faxes use only
Black or White pixels (Monochrome), any (BMP) image you select
MUST already be a BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE, (not gray scale or
colored). If you use a gray scale or colored image, the fax will
just have a solid black shape wherever you placed this image.
IMPORTANT - DO NOT TRY to include more
than one BMP image, as this will cause the fax server engine to
crash and it will also very probably corrupt your faxes database
making it unusable. You can however use a bitmap that is as
large as the whole page, which allows you to create an "image
background" for the entire page if you wish to do so, and
then you can easily "fit" your page entries to the
bitmaps positioning.
To help you understand these cover page
templates a little more easily, we have also provided a few
different sample cover pages that can be found in the same folder
as the cover page editor itself, which is the "Cover Page
Editor" sub folder in the NetCFax folder tree. You can load
and modify these as much as you wish, but if you want to use one,
don't forget to save it to the correct SYSTEMxx folder with one of
our recognized names and a CPE suffix, such as cpurgent.cpe, or any of
the other three recognized names.
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