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- Documentation for VIEW.EXE, version 1.54
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- VIEW [filename|filespec] [options]
-
- VIEW can read faxes stored in ZFAX version 2 (1D-MH only), QuickLink II
- QFX format, or TIFF-Class-F format (Faxworks). It can print these faxes
- also.
-
- The default filespec is "*.??X" which nicely handles *.FAX, *.QFX, *.PCX,
- and *.DCX. If you specify a filename rather than a filespec, VIEW works
- in batch mode rather than menu mode. (See notes on BATCH mode at the end
- of this document.)
-
- To use VIEW, change into the directory where all your faxes are located,
- and then start it, by typing "VIEW". If if finds any faxes, it will bring
- up a list of them on the screen, and you can use the up and down arrows to
- select which fax you wish to view or print.
-
- The available commands are listed on the bottom of the screen...
- <Enter>=view, <Ctrl-Enter>=print, <F2>=convert to PCX, <F3>=convert to DCX,
- and <Delete>=delete the fax
-
- If you start VIEW without any command line parameters, it will automatically
- detect either a CGA, EGA, or VGA display. However, it will not detect the
- printer type, so you will have to specify that manually.
-
- To force a specific video mode when starting VIEW...
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Mode Resolution
- ---- ----------
- VIEW /CGA $6 640x200
- VIEW /EGA $10 640x350
- VIEW /VGA $11 640x480
- VIEW /800 (or VIEW /SVGA) $102 800x600
- VIEW /1024 $104 1024x768
- VIEW /1280 $106 1280x1024
-
- Your video card and/or monitor may not be able to support all of the modes
- available.
-
- Commands available while viewing the fax itself
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- When the fax image is on the screen, you have a few choices...
-
- Alt-I invert the fax colors (black becomes white, white becomes black)
- Alt-F flip the fax for thoese people that send you upside down faxes
- Alt-S shrink the fax so that the image isn't quite so big on the screen
-
- You can pan around by using the up, down, left, and right arrow keys.
-
- To go to the next page in a fax, <PgDn>, the previous page <PgUp>
-
-
- To use a specific printer driver when starting VIEW...
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Switch DPI Printer
- ------ ------- -------------
- VIEW /P24 180x180 Epson compatible 24-pin dot matrix
- VIEW /P25 360x180 Epson compatible 24-pin dot matrix
- VIEW /P26 180x180 Canon BJ-200 compatible bubble-jet printer
- VIEW /P27 360x360 Canon BJ-200 compatible bubble-jet printer
-
- VIEW /P37 150x150 PCL level 3 compatible laser printer
- VIEW /P38 150x150 PCL level 4 compatible laser printer (faster than PCL3)
- VIEW /P39 150x150 PCL level 5 compatible laser printer (faster than PCL4)
-
- VIEW /P40 300x300 PCL level 3 compatible laser printer
- VIEW /P41 300x300 PCL level 4 compatible laser printer (faster than PCL3)
- VIEW /P42 300x300 PCL level 5 compatible laser printer (faster than PCL4)
-
- VIEW /P24 is recommened for most dot matrix printers, and /P40 is recommened
- for most lasers if you do not know what PCL level it supports.
-
- *** What about printing to ports other than LPT1 ???
-
- VIEW /P40:LPT2
- Will print to a laser printer on LPT2 as a software interrupt 17 device.
- (Should use this.)
-
- VIEW /P40:+LPT2
- Will print to a laser printer on LPT2 as a "file" rather than a device.
- (Sometimes this prints a little faster, but usually it prints much slower.)
-
- VIEW /P40:+TEST.PRN
- then from a DOS prompt, "copy test.prn lpt2" as an alternate way of printing
-
- *** What about A4 or US-Legal paper sizes?
-
- VIEW /P40 /A4 for metric-A4 (rather than US-letter)
- VIEW /P40 /LP for US-legal (rather than US-letter)
-
- Miscellaneous switches
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- VIEW /DB Try to display bad scan lines (normally, VIEW just puts a dotted
- line across the screen if it detects a bad scan line.)
-
- VIEW /BO Display fax using a backwards bit order. This may be necessary
- if you have received a fax on a USR modem with Binkley's internal
- fax routines, or if you have started BGFAX with the incorrect
- command line switch.
-
- Multiple command lines parameters
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- VIEW /p40 /1024
-
- For example would make VIEW use 1024x768 resolution when viewing faxes and
- print faxes (when the user hits Ctrl-Enter) to a laser printer. It is
- suggested that you make a batch file to call VIEW with these parameters so
- that you don't have to always type them in.
-
- BATCH MODE
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- You can also start VIEW in a "batch" mode, which requires no user
- intervention.
-
- "VIEW FAX0001.FAX /P40" would print the fax0001.fax file to a laser printer.
- "VIEW fax0001.fax /dcx" would convert that fax to a DCX file
- "VIEW fax0001.fax /pcx" would convert that fax to PCX files
-
- (Note that a DCX file is basically a multipage PCX file, and many fax
- applications support the DCX format. PCX format gets messy because each
- fax page has to be saved into a seperate file, but PCX format is nearly
- universal and just about every graphics program on the planet will let
- you load a PCX image.)
-
- Note about 2D-MR compressed faxes
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- VIEW does not currently support 2D-MR faxes properly. A 2D-MR fax is
- basically a 1D-MH normal fax with every other line having only "difference"
- information rather than the whole scan line encoded. VIEW will correctly
- view the 1D-MH lines, but will show the 2D-MR lines as improperly decoded
- scan lines.
-
- Regards,
- B.J. Guillot
-
-