I have had good luck using eFax - but it will cost you a license to use it. One
client even did a mail merge of over 2,000 contacts through eFax, and was rather happy
with the results.
"Betaserver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After doing some research on Adobe's web site I found the answers to
>being able to print rbase reports using acrobat 5.0's Distiller. Now
>with The glorious (Razzak is getting contagious) RBase 6.5++ I can
>print our company's invoices without any user interaction to a specific
>directory. Also with 2 other programs.. Postie (excellent program!) for
>email and Zetafax for faxing, we can now move towards a more paperless
>environment, something none of the current software packages for my
>industry currently offers. Now with the price of postage going up, it
>makes it even more attractive. Anyway I wanted to post the directions
>for automating Acrobat 5.0 on Win2K in case anyone else is looking for
>the information, the Adobe website was really unorganized and hard to
>find this information.
>
>After installing Acrobat 5.0, the distiller printer will be added to the
>printers folder.
>
>open the printers folder.. Right click on the distiller printer and open
>printer preferences
>
>Click the Adobe PDF settings tab
>
>Un-check the defaults of the following 3,
> - View result in acrobat
> - Prompt for the PDF filename
> - Ask to replace existing PDF file
>Then Click Apply and close the window
>
>Now by default all pdf output will goto the Current users Desktop
>(..\documents & settings\{user}\desktop) To change the default path
>Right click the distiller printer and click on properties
>Click on the ports tab
>
>You will see the port for the distiller with the default directory..
>which can not be changed.. so simply click add port.. double click on
>PDF port, and select the default directory for your PDF output.
>Back in the ports window.. check off the new port as the default port
>(you can also delete the old one if you want)
>Now from RBase you can print reports directly to that folder after
>changing printers to distiller and simply out pri..
>
>I am still beta testing the ZetaFax software for faxing these reports..
>but unfortunately it does not take direct PDF attachments, I actually
>have to convert it to a TIFF file first... I know we talked about this
>before.. but has anyone come across any new or better Faxing software
>that would allow you to send batches of files with attachments from
>RBase and then send them out ?
>
>-- Frank
>
>Frank Conroy -- Systems Network Administrator
>F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc. -- Boston, MA
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 617-790-3093
>
>
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