Sending Report By Fax - Questions

rbuser

Hi

I need to send a report to a fax machine when a customer does not have a
printer.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to a suitable Delphi (2010)
component which can be used to send the fax? I have seen references to KD
Tele Tools and this seems to work (with one Line Fault issue).

KD Tele Tools requires the fax to be b/w of a specific size and in .tif
format. From previous newsgroup messages I see the way to set the width,
but how, with 12.03, do I create the .tif file?

Thanks in advance.

Philip L Jackson

rbuser

Philip L Jackson wrote:


I would just rely on the user being able to select the built in windows
fax printer which the user can choose to print to in the abscence of
a'regular' printer.

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Regards, Paul.

nicocizik

Hi Philip,

ReportBuilder does not currently fully support automatically exporting or
printing faxable reports. It is possible to export a report to a Tiff file
and fax it however it requires a few settings to be made. Please contact me
via email (support@digital-metaphors.com) if you would like to pursue this
further. I have worked with a couple other customers on this with success.

Take a look at the following article on exporting Tiff files with
ReportBuilder. I recommend using the LibTiffDelphi method if you would like
to create faxable Tiff files.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Output/Image/TIFF_Image_Export

A native "Fax device" is a feature we would like to add for a later release
of ReportBuilder.

Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

On 06/12/2010 12:38 AM, Paul Hughes wrote:
Hi

Unfortunately this application will be running on a lights out server so
it has to be automatic.

Regards

PLJ