My previous post was sadly lacking in detail. Sorry, too much coffee today.

fm8 windows xp. This is a stand alone requirement. I will just use this
from
my laptop.

Simply I wish to use the fax number stored in a record to fax
information in the same record, likely a layout containing quote or reminder
to a client.

thanks again,

P.L

Check out efax service.... you can invoke the FAX interface by selecting the
eFAX printer driver in the dialog Printer Setup.

It depends what your defintion of cheap is??? Since you are essentially
contracting out the FAX service via the internet, the cost is the monthly
fee (go to their web site and check the fee structure). There is no charge
for receiving a fax from the efax phone number... just when you send a FAX
document. I have used it for years and find it very useful.

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"P. Lessard" <lessardpeter (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

There is no cheap solution. There are the on-line services like efax,
rapidfax, rightfax, etc (there are dozens of them), where you can send
emails from FileMaker, which the services convert to faxes and send for you.

Or you can get one of the three FileMaker plug-ins I've seen for faxing,
but they each require extra faxing software to run. A couple of them,
for example, require that you have a copy of WinFax on your machine.
The plug-in bridges the communication between FMP and WinFax.

P. Lessard wrote:
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P. Lessard <lessardpeter (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I use a fax enginge that works like a printer. Under windows, I used
"Trio Datafax" some years ago. There must be a lot of cheap or free
products like this.

In Filemaker, I put a field on the layout with the destinee's fax
number. In my solution, this field will not be printed, I only need it
for the next step:

The scripts goes to the field with the fax number, copies it to the clip
board, starts the printing process and ends, leaving me with an open
print dialogue box.

I then choose the fax instead of a printer and paste the fax number from
the clipboard.
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I object. There are cheap and FREE solutions. I just finished writing a
scripts that imports a PDF to fax as a graphic, drops it into a two
page layout, where the first page is a personalized cover sheet by
calculation and the second page is a container field holding the
one-page PDF. The using the new export to PDF feature, it exports a
file called "Fax.pdf" to the desktop with an embedded title (see under
options of export to PDF) that equals "Fax to"&FullName. Then an
applescript calls an Automator script to run to change the file Fax.pdf
to the embedded title. Then put in an calculated applescript: do shell
script "lp -d Internal_Modem -o phone=#p#
~/Desktop/Faxes/#faxname#.pdf". Where #p# equals the fax number and
#faxname# equals the calculated embedded PDF title used earlier. That
shell script send the two page PDF output to Internal Modem so that you
can see the "Fax to FULL name" filename and the fax number in case
there are any faxing errors. Then take this script and loop it through
each record to fax. You get a personalized cover page each time plus
the one page PDF. Make multipage faxes by adding more pages to the
layout containing full page container. I'm sure there are ways to omit
the automator applications by replacing them with more applescript, but
this process does not leave an open print dialog box and faxing to
1,000 contacts requires as much user entry as faxing to one, albeit the
PDF export takes a bit of time. I think the script needs a two second
pause so the send to internal modem script doesn't pull a Fax.pdf file
that has not yet been renamed.
But don't let comments like "There is no cheap solution" stifle your
creativity with Filemaker.
Dave

Sorry -- I assumed the original requestor was on a Windows machine. But
even there, I see that Windows XP comes with a Fax utility (see
<http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/app_faxclient.mspx>),
which can be called from FileMaker with the Send Message step.

dericed (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:
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In article <11ii2mmhg9ag25f (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>, Howard Schlossberg
<howard (AT) antispahm (DOT) fmprosolutions.com> wrote:

The Mac OS also has built-in fax capabilities.

Even my old beige G3 originally running Mac OS 8 was able to fax direct
from the print window of any application using the software that came
free with the external modem, and still can now with Mac OS 9.2.

I'm not sure how good the fax ability built into Mac OS X is or how it
works, but it is there in the OS Preferences.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

so did my win 9x systems... :/