Hi Dane, In response to Chris Blouch's post about whether people had gotten farther accessibly using the built-in FAX dialog on older machines with built in modems you wrote:
>No, I had problems navigating to the Phone Number feeld on my Ibook >which had an in-built modem. This won't work for the newer Macs without built-in modems, but have you tried just using command lines to send a FAX and typing in the phone number? The obvious thing is to do this as an AppleScript or Automator action, and there may be general solutions like this. Mac OS X hints for FAX from command line (or AppleScript) at: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031128150928128 Gives this information: (for someone using terminal) <excerpt> The command I used to fax a document from my desktop is: lp -d Internal_Modem -o phone=222-3333 ~/Desktop/filename.ps This sent the fax to the fax queue just like using the Fax... button on the Print dialog. <snip> other comments gave: -o faxCoverSheet -o faxSubject="Subject of the FAX" -o faxCoverSheetMessage="Message for cover sheet" -o faxTo="Person Receiving FAX" but read the followups <question> I am having great dificulties with the cover sheet. Only the first word of faxSubject, faxCoverSheetMessage & faxTo are being transfered :-/ Anyone got a solution? <answer> Try URL encoding the options, e.g. -o faxSubject="Hello%20my%20dear%20fax%20destination" and other options: While desperately seeking for disabling by default dial tone detection, I've discovered these other 3 options: -o faxWaitForDialTone=false/true -o faxUseSound=false/true -o faxToneDialing=false/true The first one does what I was looking for. It works from command line, but does not work as a key in prefs. The other thing that popped up were references to a fax command, but I think it might be eaiser to use the print (lp) options. That's the interface that the normal FAX option button under print uses. I'd guess that you could send regular text and .ps (PostScript) files, since fax supports those, and maybe .pdf files since that's a default for printing. If pdf doesn't work, there's a "Save PDF as PostScript" menu option on the first "unknown" button in the command-p print menu that generate the PDF -- it shows up just above the "FAX PDF" menu option. If you need to read about the fax command, there's a unix man page at the Apple Developer Connection: http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/fax.1.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/1/fax or you can read the man page. I'm not sure what the easiest way to do this accessibly is, but in terminal you can direct long output to a file and open it up with TextEdit. For example, man fax | col -b > fax_man.txt and then open -a TextEdit fax_man.txt There's also a page on Turning fax services on and off from the command line: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040110002504229 On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, at 05:35AM, "Dane Trethowan" wrote: >No, I had problems navigating to the Phone Number feeld on my Ibook >which had an in-built modem. > >On 26/09/2007, at 12:06 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. <snip> Cheers, Esther
