Q.: Basic Fax-Send software for faxmodems under win Vista?
tlvp
available, for use with either motherboard-based or external faxmodems,
for sending fax, under Windows Vista Home Premium? Free preferred.
I note with great regret that, unlike Win XP and earlier (or
Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise), Vista Home Premium
does *not* come with any "Fax Wizard" or "virtual Fax Printer".
Is, say, Symantec's WinFax 8 too Vista-unaware to function acceptably,
as some rumors would have it?
TIA for any usable pointers. And cheers, -- tlvp
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Gary A. Edelstein
wrote:
Not easy to find freeware; this appears promising:
http://www.blackice.com/impColorFaxLite.htm
May work with modifications:
http://www.usr.com/bvrp/bvrp-904.asp
See this thread:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-fax-vista-home.htn
Pay fax software for Vista Home is easy to find.
Gary E
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|"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo
tlvp
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:31:46 -0400, tlvp <mPiOsUcB...@att.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Would this be a good place to ask whether there's any fax software
>>available, for use with either motherboard-based or external faxmodems,
>>for sending fax, under Windows Vista Home Premium? Free preferred.
>>
>>I note with great regret that, unlike Win XP and earlier (or
>>Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise), Vista Home Premium
>>does *not* come with any "Fax Wizard" or "virtual Fax Printer".
>>
>>Is, say, Symantec's WinFax 8 too Vista-unaware to function acceptably,
>>as some rumors would have it?
>>
>>TIA for any usable pointers. And cheers, -- tlvp
>>
> Not easy to find freeware; this appears promising:
>
> http://www.blackice.com/impColorFaxLite.htm
>
> May work with modifications:
>
> http://www.usr.com/bvrp/bvrp-904.asp
>
> See this thread:
>
> http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-fax-vista-home.htn
>
> Pay fax software for Vista Home is easy to find.
>
> Gary E
> --
Thanks, Gary: I'll be looking into these sites you mention.
Cheers, -- tlvp
tlvp
Quick second feedbacks: The USR / BVRP link looks especially promising.
The BlackIce link has yet to email me their promised DL instructions & AUTH.
Your munged Reply address *may* cause trouble for whoever is actually at
SPAMyahoo.com, for, as NSLOOKUP reveals, that may be a valid domain:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: spamyahoo.com
Addresses: 206.190.60.37
68.180.206.184
But thanks again! And cheers, -- tlvp
David
wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:31:46 -0400, tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlL...@att.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Would this be a good place to ask whether there's any fax software
> >available, for use with either motherboard-based or external faxmodems,
> >for sending fax, under Windows Vista Home Premium? Free preferred.
>
> >I note with great regret that, unlike Win XP and earlier (or
> >Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise), Vista Home Premium
> >does *not* come with any "Fax Wizard" or "virtual Fax Printer".
>
> >Is, say, Symantec's WinFax 8 too Vista-unaware to function acceptably,
> >as some rumors would have it?
>
> >TIA for any usable pointers. And cheers, -- tlvp
>
> Not easy to find freeware; this appears promising:
>
> http://www.blackice.com/impColorFaxLite.htm
>
> May work with modifications:
>
> http://www.usr.com/bvrp/bvrp-904.asp
>
> See this thread:
>
> http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-fax-vista-home.htn
>
> Pay fax software for Vista Home is easy to find.
>
> Gary E
> --
> |Gary A. Edelstein
> |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo
I tried the Black Ice Impact ColorFax. Seems to be a winner.
Although I can't figure out how to make it to not intercept incoming
calls.
David
wrote:
> wrote:
>
> >Would this be a good place to ask whether there's any fax software
> >available, for use with either motherboard-based or external faxmodems,
> >for sending fax, under Windows Vista Home Premium? Free preferred.
>
> >I note with great regret that, unlike Win XP and earlier (or
> >Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise), Vista Home Premium
> >does *not* come with any "Fax Wizard" or "virtual Fax Printer".
>
> >Is, say, Symantec's WinFax 8 too Vista-unaware to function acceptably,
> >as some rumors would have it?
>
> >TIA for any usable pointers. And cheers, -- tlvp
>
> Not easy to find freeware; this appears promising:
>
> http://www.blackice.com/impColorFaxLite.htm
>
> May work with modifications:
>
> http://www.usr.com/bvrp/bvrp-904.asp
>
> See this thread:
>
> http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-fax-vista-home.htn
>
> Pay fax software for Vista Home is easy to find.
>
> Gary E
> --
> |Gary A. Edelstein
> |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo
Both Black Ice Impact ColorFax and BVRP Classic Phone Tools (available
from USR) appear to work fine and are indeed free. However, neither
provide a faxing printer emulator, so you have to manually add
supported document types to an outgoing fax. Impact ColorFax appears
to have one, but printing to the printer emulator only launches the
program and nothing from whatever you were trying to fax is
transferred (Vista problem only maybe?).
tlvp
> On Jul 2, 9:54ï¿œam, Gary A. Edelstein <edels...@SPAMyahoo.com.invalid>
> from USR) appear to work fine and are indeed free. However, ...
David, many thanks for doing my homework for me :-) . I had meant to
get around to trying these out, *have* DL-ed them, but ... .
> ... neither
> provide a faxing printer emulator, so you have to manually add
> supported document types to an outgoing fax. ...
That's a bummer. But I presume .txt files, .jpgs, and .PDFs *are*
all "supported document types"? And .doc files, too, maybe?
> ... Impact ColorFax appears
> to have one, but printing to the printer emulator only launches the
> program and nothing from whatever you were trying to fax is
> transferred (Vista problem only maybe?).
Strange. But again, many thanks: you encourage me to install these apps,
now that I've had them DL-ed for nearly a month.
Cheers, -- tlvp
David
printer emulator. After an e-mail to tech support and the response
several days later, I was given the diagnosis that I may have a
corrupted installation. Following the given instructions, I
uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled ColorFax. Now it works also as
a printer emulator.
David
PDF, BMP, DCX, PCX, TIFF, JPEG, and PNG.
To reitterate my last post, I did get the printer emulator piece to
work.
tlvp
Interesting, along with the list of supported Document types
in your follow-up. Alas, the Black Ice Impact ColorFax folks
never did succeed in getting their download-authorization/
registration-info email into the email inbox I provided them,
so I'm unable to do anything but ... perhaps ... try again
with a different email addy.
Thanks, in any event, for following through with this:
most helpful of you :-) .
Cheers, -- tlvp
tlvp
Following up: I *did* "try again with a different email addy."
And: success at receiving their download instruction email.
But it took several tries -- usa.net , att.net, and Hotmail
all failed to receive anything; only an NSM address finally
got the DL instruction email. (And, yes, I did make doubly
sure the other email addies were spelled correctly :-) .)
Moreover, BlackIce's own "excessively many DL requests" engine
(which must be cookie-based) forced me to use a second browser
after it refused to accept my last attempt (on the first browser)
to register, on the grounds that I was over-using the system :-) .
Now to attempt to install, and to use ... this should be fun :-) .
And all this just to restore to Win Vista some semplance of the
Fax Wizard that should never have been excised from it :-{ .
tlvp
> The supported document types are: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, HTML,
> PDF, BMP, DCX, PCX, TIFF, JPEG, and PNG.
Not RTF ? Or does RTF just go without saying, as a "Word" doc type?
> To reitterate my last post, I did get the printer emulator piece to
> work.
Yep, I got that part. And I finally got the BlackIce DL email,
and have it DL-ed. Thanks for following through.
And thanks for illustrating that *not* all google-groups
posters are to blame for the "eternal September" syndrome
-- you're a welcome counterexample :-) .
Cheers, David, and thanks again, -- tlvp
tlvp
(Sigh!) Download went well. Install (as Admin) seemed to go well.
Printing to the Fax Printer (a .txt document) seemed to go well,
but the subsequent faxing itself seems to have bombed out -- the
modem (on COM3:) was found, initialized, and dialed out through;
fax handshake took place; but 10 seconds later, the connection ended
with no fax actually sent. BlackIce Lite tried again, some minutes
later, with the same sequence of events -- and likewise, several
more times.
Any idea what I should be looking for in troubleshooting this?
Or should I just send the above description to the tech helpers
at BlackIce?
TIA, -- tlvp