[AccessD] Winfax Pro and Access

I was using Winfax to send invoices from Access a few years (3 or 4?) ago.
Unless something has changed, the API for Winfax had basically been
abandoned by Symantec.  Is Winfax Pro still available?  I'm not sure if my
client still uses the code I wrote or not - if you want, I'll send it to
you.  It's pretty straightforward - it looks like I was printing an Access
snapshot to a file then having winfax pick it up and send it.  If I remember
rightly, I had some timing issues - I had to pause 10 seconds between each
fax to let Winfax process the report.

Doug

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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