Shaun, This was discussed on the list. You'd have to go to the Mail Archives web site and search, but here's an example of some of the discussion:
(part of thread titled: Faxing on the mac) http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg05734.html (you should check the links to the other posts in the thread at the bottom of the page) or (part of thread: FAXing with your Mac and its modem) http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg05890.html I don't do this at all, but my recollection of the quick summary is: the regular print dialogue options allow you to automatically send things out to a FAX format. The problems are usually routing this out to a phone line connection. Old macs which have modem connectors handled this easily, but none of the newer Macs like your MacBook Pro come with dial-up modem connections. There are ways to send the FAX out on broad-band connections, but they involve some contortions. I think Travis Siegel summarized some of this, but I haven't seen him on this list for a while. Maybe someone else who participated in these earlier threads can summarize, or you could look for more search combinations at the Mail Archives for this list; http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/ enter various search strings and they will be "and"ed -- e.g., FAX, OCR or FAX, DSL, etc. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#search for the search syntax. Cheers, Esther On Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at 11:17AM, "VaShaun Jones" wrote: > No I want a accessible sofftware ssolutionn like e-fax. If > anyone >has tried it on the Mac please let me know your findings. >On Sep 25, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> You'll need a fax modem to send a fax. Or were you saing just the >> accessibility issues were the stopper? >> >> CB >> >> VaShaun Jones wrote: >>> Yes I saw that, however it is for modems. I want a accessible >>> software solution. >>> On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: >>> >>>> I haven't used it but there is faxing built into MacOSX. When you >>>> print the print dialogue is fairly inaccessible. If you vo-Down >>>> you'll find two Unknown areas after Presets. If you go to the >>>> second Unknown area and interact with that you'll find several >>>> buttons such as Preview and Cancel. There are also two more >>>> Unknown buttons. The Unknown button to the left of the Preview >>>> button allows you to output what you print to other destinations >>>> such as a PDF or Fax. So if you control-option-shift that Unknown >>>> button it turns out to actually be a menu of options. The third >>>> option is Fax PDF. If you choose this you will get a new dialogue >>>> box to fill out which has a To: field and options to pick a fax >>>> modem. I don't have a modem so I'm not sure what exactly you >>>> would want to do next. I did seem to have trouble navigating to >>>> the phone number field (another Unknown) but maybe that's because >>>> I don't have the modem setup. Anyone else get farther than this? >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>> VaShaun Jones wrote: >>>>> Does anyone use a faxing program? Also can you recomend a good >>>>> and free scanning program as well? >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > > >
