PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition

When the X-PS-qualifiers: header line is present in a mail message sent to PMDF-FAX, its content is interpreted as a list of command qualifiers for the PMDF PS utility and is passed to the PS utility as such when the message body is processed. Only legal PS command qualifiers can appear in this header line; see the PS utility documentation for a list of legal qualifiers. For example, the header line

X-PS-qualifiers: /LEFT_MARGIN=36/LANDSCAPE/COLUMNS=2/LINES=50/CALCULATE

will cause PMDF-FAX to typeset the message with the left margin 36 points wide (1/2 inch) and produce two 50 line columns of text per page at an appropriate font size. The message will be displayed in landscape mode in which the lines of text would run along the long dimension of the page.

If you use PMDF MAIL, PMDF SEND, VMS MAIL, or DECwindows MAIL, you can control the contents of the X-PS-qualifiers: header line with the PMDF_X_PS_QUALIFIERS logical; its translation value at the time the e-mail message is generated is used to form the contents of that header line. See Section 1.1.9 for general information on the use of logical names to specify message header lines.

You can use the PMDF PS utility's /MAIL qualifier to properly set the PMDF_X_PS_QUALIFIERS process logical. Setting the logical this way ensures that only legal qualifiers are placed in the X-PS-qualifiers: header line. See the PS utility documentation in Chapter 9.