[AccessD] Winfax Pro and Access

...forget WinFaxPro ...Symantec made a mess of it when they bought it.
...I use ZetaFax

William

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From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:46 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [AccessD] Winfax Pro and Access

> Dear Group,
> I have an old client (started working with him right after I started my
> business in '91) who continues to use Paradox for DOS for the majority of
> his business.  I'm his go-to guy for all of that work as well as for 
> Paradox
> for Windows, which I introduced into his company to produce more flexible
> reporting, and Access 2003.  I wrote an EDI component for processing
> purchase orders in Access using a VBA EDI library I recommended he 
> purchase.
>
> Anyway, I've been trying over the years to get him to switch completely to
> Access or SQL Server but I don't think that it's ever going to happen.
>
> During the time I've worked with him he's had an idea for electronic
> document storage that he keeps running past me.  We talked about it again 
> on
> Thursday this past week.
>
> He receives requests for bids via fax.  Sometimes these documents are a
> couple dozen pages long.  He doesn't bid on every item on every page; so
> he'd like to save only those fax pages that contain the items he bids on.
> He wants to save those pages in another file for reference without having
> to print a hard copy at all.  In the last 12 months he responded to over
> 1400 bid requests.
>
> He also wants to create PDF documents for his invoices and order
> acknowledgements...again, without having to print them.
>
> His thought is to use Access as the mechanism for automating his faxing. 
> If
> he has to send out 10 bids in a day, with three of them to the same 
> company,
> he wants to be able to control a fax program (WinFax Pro is the only one 
> I'm
> really familiar with) through Access to send faxes to multiple companies,
> with multiple documents to the same company.
>
> I suggested that he consider sending e-mails instead with attachments.
>
> 1) What kind of experiences have you had using Access to control WinFax 
> Pro?
>
> 2) I've seen messages here relating to controlling Outlook with VBA. 
> What's
> your feeling about the desirability of that sort of operation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI
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