Windows Fax Export

You can send List & Label documents directly as a fax using the fax service of Windows. If you connect a fax modem to such an operating system, the fax driver will be automatically installed in most versions of these operationg systems.

Additional information is needed for automatic fax sending (that is, no dialog will be displayed for the fax destination, cover page etc.). You can preset these parameters using the LL_OPTIONSTR_FAX... option strings (see LlSetOptionString()).

Example:

HLLJOB hJob;
hJob = LlJobOpen(0);
LlSetOptionString(hJob, LL_OPTIONSTR_FAX_RECIPNAME,
   "combit");
LlSetOptionString(hJob, L_OPTIONSTR_FAX_RECIPNUMBER,
   "+497531906018");
LlSetOptionString(hJob, LL_OPTIONSTR_FAX_SENDERNAME,
   "John Doe");
LlSetOptionString(hJob, LL_OPTIONSTR_FAX_SENDERCOMPANY,
   "Sunshine Corp.");
LlSetOptionString(hJob, LL_OPTIONSTR_FAX_SENDERDEPT,
   "Development");
LlSetOptionString(hJob, LL_OPTIONSTR_FAX_SENDERBILLINGCODE,
   "4711");
// ...
LlJobClose(hJob);

If these options are not set and the user has not entered any expressions in the fax parameters dialog, export to MS FAX will not be available.

This module has no programming interface.

Various established fax applications can be used from List & Label with the corresponding printer (fax) driver. If the fax application supports passing of the fax number by the document, the number input dialog can be suppressed in most cases. To use e.g. David from the company Tobit, you can use the @@-command. Place a text object in the Designer and insert the line:

"@@NUMBER "+<fax number resp. field name>+"@@"

The fax driver knows the syntax and sends the print job without any user interaction with the placed fax number. Other fax applications offer similar possibilities – we recommend taking a look at the documentation of your fax application.