[Discussion] Question: FAXs and e-mails

[Carl Gehr]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:05:55 -0400, John Kozacik wrote:

>Hello,
>  If a vendor I'm dealing with wants me to send information in a FAX and I
>don't have a scanner to input the form, and I don't want to dial a long
>distance number to send the FAX, can I get around this by attaching a FAX file
>to an e-mail, and is this much a bother to the recepient?  (I can dig out my
>copy of FAXWorks for OS2 to edit and save a FAX formatted file).  Or are there
>other software apps out there that help with this that I'm not aware of? 

Hi, John!

I'm not sure I'd use a FAX format, because that may be a special
format...

But, FAXWorks [a.k.a., PMFax] has an option:
	FAX->SaveFile-TIFF-File
I *believe* that his file format is rather common to most FAX packages.
 At lease, PMFax also has the ability to Import such a file so it
appears as if it were created/received as a FAX.

If you have the information in some form that can be printed, and can
print it to the PMFax printer driver, you should be able to use the
above to export a TIFF file.  If you are just going to type the info,
PMFax will allow you to do that onto a blank page that can be exported.
 If you have an image in some form that PMView can handle, it also has
the option to Save-As and specify TIFF as the format.

OTOH, if you have hardcopy and no scanner, I'm not sure how you get an
image of the paper to export.

If you do need to capture a hardcopy, contact me off-list and [since I
am also in Cincinnati] we can work something out to get the page
captured.

Carl G.