Hi Dane and Others, I haven't tried any of these FAXing tricks myself. (When I first got my Mac I used dial-up to connect to the internet -- no second line to switch to for experiments and a pain to reconfigure). However, when I typed FAX into Spotlight just now, I found an application named "FAX Browser" that must have come with my laptop, Anyone give this a go? It's probably old -- my laptop was made pre-Tiger and pre-Panther.
Cheers, Esther On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, at 10:28AM, "Dane Trethowan" wrote: >Thank you, very helpful. > >On 27/09/2007, at 6:18 AM, Esther wrote: > >> 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 > > >
