When you double-click on the `AmigaFax' icon, the main AmigaFax
control window will open. This allows you to edit, compile and view
faxes, queue them for transmission, review previously queued
transmissions, and so forth. There are currently six string gadgets,
six pushbutton gadgets, and one toggle gadget on the control window.
The gadget functions are:
- FINE/STD
This toggle gadget allows the user to toggle between Fine (200 DPI)
and Standard (100 DPI) vertical resolution, when creating AFax files.
Standard resolution takes half the space, and half the time to
transmit, of Fine mode, but Fine looks MUCH nicer !!
- To:
This is the intended recipient of the Fax. It may be just a phone
number, or it may be an alias. When you enter a string and press
return, if the first character is a digit it will be treated as a
number, otherwise it will be checked for aliases. If no aliases are
found, the string is removed, otherwise the number of aliases found is
shown. Refer to section
for more information on aliases.
- From:
This is picked up from the LocalID field in your Config file, if
present. You may override this value. It is a 20 character string sent
to the remote Fax to identify you as the sender, usually your phone
number for return faxes.
- Source:
This is the name of the fax source document, usually an AmigaFax
command (.FCOM) file, although plain text or ILBM files may also
be used. If you press return with an empty string, and ARP is
installed, a requester will prompt you for a filename.
- AFAX:
This is the name for the actual fax file. The system will usually pick
a name for you, but you may wish to override it. Note that the AFAX
file name will be reserved, but not actually created, until time to
send the Fax. You may force creation with the "Make" gadget if you
wish to test that it is created correctly. If a document is to be
faxed to multiple recipients, only one copy of the AFAX file will be
made. It is automatically deleted when all recipients have been
reached.
- Tries:
The maximum number of times to try to get a fax through to a specific
recipient if problems are encountered, such as remote phone being
engaged. Defaults to three.
- Time:
The Fax will not be sent until after this time. An empty field means
send at any time. Fill in as hh:mm, (24 hour format) then press return.
The system will interpret the time, and display the result. Time can
only be in the future, past time is rounded up by a day.
- New
Create a new Fax document, and edit it using your configuration
editor. The file pointed to by the configuration entry "Template"
will be used as a fax pro-forma. The system will pick a default
document name for you, which you may keep or override.
- Edit
Edit a Fax document, using your configuration editor. Note that you
may set both a text and a graphic editor in your config file.
- Make
The system will attempt to build an AFAX file from your source document.
This is not necessary when sending faxes, but does allow you to check
whether the document will appear as you wish.
- Preview
Invokes the AFAX viewer program, so you can preview the completed document.
- Send
Your facsimile document will be queued for sending to the appropriate
recipients. If the fax-spooler is not running, you will be asked if
you wish to start it.
- QCheck
This gadget will bring up the queue check window, to monitor the
progress of outgoing Faxes. From here it is possible to requeue Faxes
that have exceeded their error allowance, and to remove the spool
files for faxes that have been successfully sent, or that are still
queued for transmission.