Custom Headers and X-Faces

    

How To Turn ON/OFF X-Face Display in the Article Pane
     Tools - Global Options - Display:  Check box "Show X-Faces"

General X-Face Information
X-Faces are small bitmaps that appear in the upper right corner of the article pane, if enabled. They are used to display a small black and white bitmap image (usually a facsimile of the user's face).
An X-Face is entered as a plain text custom header beginning with "X-Face: " Note that a space must follow the colon. The following shows the beginning of an X-Face string:
X-Face: #xFK/[Y01i)lp.U$i5B$4e`jtQ&CEYkP!K|d#..

You need an application to create the face from a bitmap image (*.bmp). For the best results, the bitmap image used to generate the face should be black and-white and 48x48 pixels.
This link (not guaranteed to work) is to Matthijs Laan's Winface generator that can be used to create the face header from a bitmap:  
DISREGARD THE GRAVITY PATCHES, THEY WILL NOT WORK ON THE OPEN SOURCE GRAVITY VERSIONS.
Additional X-Face information is beyond the scope of this document.

Custom Headers
There are three places to enter any custom header, like X-No-Archive: or X-Face:

·      Tools - Global Options - Posting - Custom Headers. These are included in *all* posts and follow-ups, unless over-ridden by a newsgroup override.

·      Newsgroup - Properties - Overrides Tab. This overrides any custom settings in global options and apply only to the selected newsgroup.

·      In the Post/Compose Window. Click Advanced Fields where you can add the header for a single post.

Important Gravity Notes

 

·      Gravity can NOT handle custom headers spanning more than a single line, you MUST put the X-Face text string on one line.

·      Gravity Build 2.9.13 allows longer custom headers, up to 998 characters, including the header field.

·      With Builds prior to Build 2.9.13, the custom header text can NOT exceed 255 characters, or the face will be cut off. To allow for the "X-Face: " header characters (including the space), the total X-Face string itself MUST be less than or equal to 247 characters.

·      If you use WinFace.exe, by Matthijs Laan, disregard the Gravity patches, they will not work on the open source Gravity versions.