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Faxing a pdf by calling an external program
Hi,
We have some software written in delphi 5. Up till now the solution we've found to send faxes forces us to use word and outlook. We found that we can create pdf files with the data we want to fax from inside our software. What we'd like to be able to do is to write create the pdf file in our software and call some external utility that can read the pdf file and fax it. Obviously this would have to be called from inside our software so we wouldn't want something that required a gui console, just an app that can receive a file path and send a fax. We had considered products like win fax but hope to avoid having to install a faxing printer and using another 3rd party product that requires installation. Is there such a utility? We are hoping to have it work for xp and vista since many of our clients are moving to vista. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Fig000 |
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Faxing a pdf by calling an external program
Well I'm no programmer, nor is this a programming group. All I can tell you
is that if you want the fax service to render a document, you must define a printto verb at the OS level for the file type you want fax to render. That works for XP Fax, but Vista WFS will be another matter since Vista no longer uses printto verbs. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "fig000" wrote in message ... Hi, We have some software written in delphi 5. Up till now the solution we've found to send faxes forces us to use word and outlook. We found that we can create pdf files with the data we want to fax from inside our software. What we'd like to be able to do is to write create the pdf file in our software and call some external utility that can read the pdf file and fax it. Obviously this would have to be called from inside our software so we wouldn't want something that required a gui console, just an app that can receive a file path and send a fax. We had considered products like win fax but hope to avoid having to install a faxing printer and using another 3rd party product that requires installation. Is there such a utility? We are hoping to have it work for xp and vista since many of our clients are moving to vista. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Fig000 |
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Faxing a pdf by calling an external program
Russ,
Thanks for answering. Oddly this isn't really a programming issue. I want to be able to call an external program from inside a delphi program and pass it a file parameter. This could be done from a dos prompt by typing something like: ExternalProgram c:\myfile.pdf destinationphonenumber All a program would do would be to open a dos shell and put that command into it. What I hope the program would do is read the file in the path and fax it to the phone number. I don't want to tie this to any weird add ons for delphi which will eventually become obsolete. I guess I won't go the printto route since more and more of our customers will have vista. I appreciate your answer. If anyone has any ideas of a program that could do this, they would be welcome. Thanks, Neil On Apr 4, 6:34*pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Well I'm no programmer, nor is this a programming group. All I can tell you is that if you want the fax service to render a document, you must define a printto verb at the OS level for the file type you want fax to render. That works for XP Fax, but Vista WFS will be another matter since Vista no longer uses printto verbs. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"fig000" wrote in message ... Hi, * We have some software written in delphi 5. Up till now the solution we've found to send faxes forces us to use word and outlook. We found that we can create pdf files with the data we want to fax from inside our software. What we'd like to be able to do is to write create the pdf file in our software and call some external utility that can read the pdf file and fax it. Obviously this would have to be called from inside our software so we wouldn't want something that required a gui console, just an app that can receive a file path and send a fax. *We had considered products like win fax but hope to avoid having to install a faxing printer and using another 3rd party product that requires installation. Is there such a utility? We are hoping to have it work for xp and vista since many of our clients are moving to vista. *Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Fig000- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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