Fax Application for the PalmPilot

User Manual

Version 0.2b1

This user manual has been written very quickly. I hope to have some time

to improve it in the future

Disclaimer

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR DISTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, ITS DOCUMENTATION, OR ANY DERIVATIVES THEREOF, EVEN IF THE AUTHORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.

I develop DBFax during my free time. As a consequence, I can't assure you of any support as a commercial company would do. Also I don't garanty that the software will keep on evolving (depends on my time ..). However I'll do my best.

BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE USING DBFax

Registration

If you use DBFax, please register at http://www.pilotgear.com . The cost associated with DBFax is 13.95 US$. If you like DBFax and want to support its development, please register.

The unregistered version prints a line of text at the bottom of each fax saying "This version of DBFax is unregistered". Once you get the registered version, this line will not be printed anymore. If new versions of DBFax are released in the future, you will receive this new version.

Introduction

The purpose of this application is to send faxes to any remote fax machine directly from the Pilot, "On the road". The current version features the following :

Generation of the fax page or during the transmission. In this last case, the page size is unlimited
Insertion of bitmaps coming from DOODLE or from Pilot Resource Databases in the fax documents
Editable Header and Footer
Easier configuration of the modem, but the user can still access the advanced parameters
Easier to use on the road with a calling card

This program is also still beta, so your ideas or comments are welcome.

Index of the manual

Editing the Header and the footer

Formatting the Header, Footer or Fax text (Using the Tags)
The Look-Up feature
Sending Faxes
Creating a bitmap resource database to use with DBFax

Known bugs

This version of DBFax presents some minor known bugs

The entry selected in the LookUp feature is not always correctly highlighted
The implementation of CLASS 2.0 during the hang up sequence is not complete. However, you should still be able to send faxes with CLASS 2.0 modems.

Also this version has not been fully tested. If you find some problems, please tell me (dberdran@gville.mindspring.com)

Thanks

Thank you to the people who gave me some feedback on the previous versions of DBFax. Also, thanks to
Tolga Taneli for the Icon of DBFax
Wes Cherry, Kresten Krab, Jeff Dionne, Ian Goldberg and others for their work on some development tools.

Feedback

I'm interested in any feedback about bugs, problems, remarks or suggestions concerning this application.
Any remarks concerning this page or the Fax application should be directed to David BERTRAND

My EMail address will probably change in the near future. (Currrently it's dberdran@gville.mindspring.com)