Routing outgoing faxes

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Pierre le Riche

Hi

The Microsoft fax services for Windows 2000 supports incoming fax routing,
but is there a way to also route outgoing faxes? Basically I want to write a
program that grabs faxes printed to the MS fax printer driver and dumps them
in a database (in raw TIFF format), much like you can dump incoming faxes
into a database by using incoming routing. I notice that the fax printer
driver prompts for the telephone number to dial, etc. - I want to suppress
that and pop up my own interface. Is this at all possible?

Thanks!

Pierre le Riche
 
The scenarion you describe is quite complicated. But you
could try exploring the options of writing a program using
the Fax APIs to achieve some parts of what is desired.
 
Hi Vibha,
The scenarion you describe is quite complicated. But you
could try exploring the options of writing a program using
the Fax APIs to achieve some parts of what is desired.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I have already looked through the APIs, but I
don't see a way to intercept the output of the Microsoft fax printer driver.
Am I missing something, or is this not possible?

Thank you!

Pierre
 
Hi,
It seems like you don't want to actually fax the document
but just create a Tiff file from a document and save it in
a database. Do you really want to fax a document or not?
If no, you could do any of the two things below -
1. Use Fax API to send fax and retrieve tiff file from
the queue
2. Install Office 2003, that comes with MODI printer, in
which by turning on 'Print to File' option, can straight
away produce tiff images.

However, if you do want to send faxes by printing to the
fax printer, there is no straight forward way of not
making the Fax Send Wizard( there is a way to do so, but
it involves a registry hack). But if you want to send the
fax and pop up your own UI (like the Send Wizard), go
ahead and Use FaxDocument.Submit. But this won't come up
if you print to a fax printer.
 
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