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- Subject: Re: PC Fax Software for faxmodems
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- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:02:58 GMT
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- In article <rd6yxbj@rpi.edu> hsiaoe@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao) writes:
- >Are there any decent FAX programs for IBM & compatibles? I tried several
- >programs, and they stink. Blastfax from US Robotics is still buggy...
- >I tried sending a fax the other day and for the date, it put
- >SeptemberOctoberNovember 9, 1992... I try Winfax Pro, and if this is the
- >best Windows fax program out there, then the PC is in big trouble.
- >Winfax Pro has the barest essential functions to send a fax. The program
- >won't even let you preview a fax before sending it. There are no desktop
- >publishing features in it. You can't preview your coverpage at all, and
- >can only preview the other pages after it sends the fax (what's the point of
- >PREview?)
- > Basically, I'm looking for a good FAX program that will let me compose
- >a fax very much like the way I would do it with paper. For example, some
- >cut and paste features, using the mouse to draw lines and pictures on the
- >page, custom place .PCX and embed other graphic formats onto the page (kinda
- >like BBN Slate), place text where I want. Basically, a fax program with
- >some desktop publishing features would be really nice...it doesn't have to
- >be Pagemaker quality, but at least have these basic features. Composing
- >faxes should be easy...Winfax Pro makes it a chore. (Can't imagine what
- >regular Winfax is like...)
- >--
- I am a little puzzled by your comments. Since Winfax Pro installs as a
- windows printer driver, you can do all of the above if your Windows
- WP or DTP program can. Most can do the simple stuff you're describing
- above. Then when you print the fax, it gets transmitted.
- For example I regularly send faxes with a Bitmapped company logo
- in the document together with a scanned image of my signature. I do this
- via AmiPro but Word4Win etc. should also be no problem.
- Both of the above programs have built in drawing packages.
- While there is no explicit preview feature, you can always schedule the fax
- to send later than time now, and then choose the Winfax View feature.
- I just don't get it.
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- Laurence Chiu
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