>I am about to embark on sending faxes in batch mode from within a VFP 6.0 application. I can use either FaxPlus 2.0 or WinFax Pro 9. Based on what I've read in here, I'm leaning towards using WinFax Pro. Does anyone have a code snippet using one of those two tools that does the following?
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I don't have something lying around to do this, but it is certainly doable using WinFax Pro - there's a printer driver, and it comes with samples in the help file demonstrating some simple control using DDE conversations to control the fax printed output.
I've switched to creating ASCII reports for both fax and email sending; WinFax Pro integrates beautifully with Outlook, so I can create my reports and send the ASCII report as an Outlook attachment for either a fax or an email, and not worry about much other than determining what type of target the client is (email or fax) and using Outlook's automation to create and send the message; it handles the WinFax interface without my having to pay attention to it in detail.
>USE Client
>SCAN
> lcFaxNo=Client.FaxNo
> REPORT FORM ClientRpt NOCON TO FILE FaxFile.PRN
> IF Necessary
> Convert FaxFile.prn TO FaxFile.PCX or BMP
> ENDIF
> Send a Fax from
TO lcFaxNo
>ENDSCAN
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>I know it's possible to install a FaxPlus printer driver so that the file output is already a PCX or BMP, but my first preference would be for a solution that lets me print to file using the PCL5 HP printer driver and then convert the resulting file into a BMP or PCX.
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>Or maybe I'm taking the wrong tack entirely.....
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>Thanks.
