eFax

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I've used this proggie for years. It sets up a virtual printer driver on
your system -- by printing to it, you can email a document or save it in a
PDF-type format (called EFX) that you can annotate with graphics, text,
hyperlinks, etc. You can append new documents to already existing EFX files.

When you email a document, you can optionally include a self-viewer. This
allows you to send docs to somebody for viewing who may not have the same
program that you used to create the document.

ML
 
I've used this proggie for years. It sets up a virtual printer
driver on your system -- by printing to it, you can email a
document or save it in a PDF-type format (called EFX) that you can
annotate with graphics, text, hyperlinks, etc. You can append new
documents to already existing EFX files.
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Does it not deliver ads? I've only used their viewer in the past, and
it did have ads.
 
Mort said:
Get eFax Messenger to view and edit your faxes.
http://home.efax.com/s/r/eFaxHomepage
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If anybody I knew sent me a fax using that service, they'd never hear
the end of it. Rest assured, they are most likely collecting every
phone number that their service sends a fax to.

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Regards from John Corliss
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http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
Does it not deliver ads? I've only used their viewer in the past, and
it did have ads.
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When you open docs created with it, a box pops up with details about your
doc. It will also try to go online, however, I've set up Zone Alarm to stop
it.

WRT John Corliss' comment, you don't have to use their fax service to use
this program. You can choose simply to email it as an attachment with the
self-contained viewer. I've never used it for this purpose but, I suppose,
if the person at the other end tried to open the doc it might want to
connect.

I recall that earlier versions of this program did have built in ads
promoting their pro version, but didn't try to connect online.

FWIW. . .
 
When you open docs created with it, a box pops up with details about your
doc. It will also try to go online, however, I've set up Zone Alarm to stop
it.
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WRT John Corliss' comment, you don't have to use their fax service to use
this program. You can choose simply to email it as an attachment with the
self-contained viewer. I've never used it for this purpose but, I suppose,
if the person at the other end tried to open the doc it might want to
connect.
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I recall that earlier versions of this program did have built in ads
promoting their pro version, but didn't try to connect online.
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I used to use J2, a similar outfit. For receiving, only. Free service,
freeware on the local machine for reading it. They issued me a fax telephone
number; you'd fax, normally, to it; I'd get an email (to a secondary email
address I gave them) with the fax as an attachment; I'd click the attachment
to have it open in the reader. I don't *remember* any advertising -- I
already had an accouht. They do send a lot of email ads, though.
 
If anybody I knew sent me a fax using that service, they'd never hear
the end of it. Rest assured, they are most likely collecting every
phone number that their service sends a fax to.
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I doubt it as they would then have a collection of fax numbers with
not much idea of who they are. The laws against sending junk faxes is
much more advanced than any laws against spam.

I signed up for eFax so I could receive faxes without needing a fax
machine. I can use my modem to send faxes but do not want to use my
hard drive for storing unknown amounts of incoming fax data. eFax was
a good solution for me.
 
-- M -- said:
When you open docs created with it, a box pops up with details about your
doc. It will also try to go online, however, I've set up Zone Alarm to stop
it.

WRT John Corliss' comment, you don't have to use their fax service to use
this program. You can choose simply to email it as an attachment with the
self-contained viewer.
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I would simply send a scanned document or the document itself as a
..jpg file attachment to an email, and without using their service or
programs. There is no need to ask others to install questionable
software on their system just to view images.
I've never used it for this purpose but, I suppose,
if the person at the other end tried to open the doc it might want to
connect.

I recall that earlier versions of this program did have built in ads
promoting their pro version, but didn't try to connect online.

FWIW. . .
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Thanks. However, others with my phone number might not choose that
option the non-fax option, and there would be the problem. I would
have little or no control over the settings on a friend or relative's
computer.

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see Andy Mabbett's obsessive troll posts
because my I have him killfiled.
 
I doubt it as they would then have a collection of fax numbers with
not much idea of who they are.
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Don't know why you say that, since most faxes are addressed to
somebody or some company. In spite of their privacy policy, what they
do with information that you voluntarily send them is totally up to
them. When you send a fax through their service, you only have their
word that they're not storing and-or examining it.

I have an unlisted number don't appreciate somebody else giving it
out, regardless.
The laws against sending junk faxes is
much more advanced than any laws against spam.
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*sigh* It would be nice if spam laws would catch up alright.
I signed up for eFax so I could receive faxes without needing a fax
machine. I can use my modem to send faxes but do not want to use my
hard drive for storing unknown amounts of incoming fax data. eFax was
a good solution for me.
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When I had a fax modem, I would only receive faxes when I knew they
were coming in and would print them out as soon as possible. The
amount of space required to store them temporarily never crowded my
previous computer, an ancient P90 with a 690 mb hard drive.

Of course, YMMV.

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see Andy Mabbett's obsessive troll posts
because my I have him killfiled.
 
Mort said:
Get eFax Messenger to view and edit your faxes.
http://home.efax.com/s/r/eFaxHomepage
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Been using j2 for years at work. I hate getting a paper fax. Seems I've
been grandfathered in and just get a .TIF attachment for the faxes. I
think if you sign up now, you're forced with some proprietary format (efax
maybe). K7 will still give you .TIF I think.
 
John said:
When I had a fax modem, I would only receive faxes when I knew they
were coming in and would print them out as soon as possible. The
amount of space required to store them temporarily never crowded my
previous computer, an ancient P90 with a 690 mb hard drive.
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That's how I used to work too. I wasn't worried about disk space, but
I didn't like being limited to having to know when a fax was going to be
sent to me, in advance. As you found out, that's not always possible --
someone doesn't get around to sending it for half a day, someone sends a
work schedule without calling first, and so on. Not very efficient. At
least with outbound faxes, you know when they're going to happen. :)

(Thus, I went to using an eFax-like outfit for incoming, and received
faxes as email attachments.)
 
Been using j2 for years at work. I hate getting a paper fax. Seems I've
been grandfathered in and just get a .TIF attachment for the faxes. I
think if you sign up now, you're forced with some proprietary format (efax
maybe). K7 will still give you .TIF I think.
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That's cool. eFax, on the other hand, requires a proprietary viewer unless
you pay for their premium service. (I used j2 for a couple years, until I
moved to Linux. Recently I signed up at eFax, only to learn the above
limitation.)
 
John Corliss said:
I have an unlisted number don't appreciate somebody else giving it out,
regardless.
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So you don't want anyone to call you,. at all, ever, then?

Or are you just so clueless that you don't know how telephones work?
 
Andy said:
So you don't want anyone to call you,. at all, ever, then?
Or are you just so clueless that you don't know how telephones work?
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No, not clueless at all (as YOU are), troll. Everybody who needs to
get in touch with me knows my phone number. They also know that I
don't want them to give it out. What part of that don't you
understand, Mabbott?
 
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