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Legacy Forums => Suggestions => Topic started by: Darren Chew on February 07, 2002, 02:01:29 PM

Title: Windows Fax Server with PDF integration
Post by: Darren Chew on February 07, 2002, 02:01:29 PM

What would be nice is if we could stick an internal modem and phone line into the SME Server and be able to receive faxes via PDF in e-mail, on an Intranet page, or a fax store on the SME server. The advantage of this is that you can choose whether you needed to print a hard copy of the fax be viewing its contents first. You could also go back and reprint a fax whenever desired.

Provided you have a scanner on a Windows PC and could send faxes from Windows to the SME server then all the sudden the physical fax machine becomes redundant.

I suspect that would require some software on the Windows side in the form of a printer driver.

Title: Re: Windows Fax Server with PDF integration
Post by: Rob Hillis on February 07, 2002, 02:08:40 PM

Darren Chew wrote:

> What would be nice is if we could stick an internal modem and
> phone line into the SME Server and be able to receive faxes
> via PDF in e-mail, on an Intranet page, or a fax store on the
> SME server. The advantage of this is that you can choose
> whether you needed to print a hard copy of the fax be viewing
> its contents first. You could also go back and reprint a fax
> whenever desired.

Ask and ye shall receive.

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/HylaFAX-HowTo.html

Just a quick note... internal modems are *generally* speaking, not good.  They tend to be "Winmodems" and therefore
are not usually compatible with SME.  Externals are *far* better.