We now have a system where a "fax" can be sent by a secure email server at
our hospital. I wrote software which prints letters to referring
physicians. Currently they are being printed and then manually faxed. I am
still having some difficulty with automating that because of issues with
WinFax Pro and its lack of support but Jean suggested ActiveFax which I will
explore.. Thanks Jean

Emailing within paradox seems easy.My question has to do with converting a
nicely formated report (using the paradox report generator) to either an
attachment which the recieving physician can read (assuming they don't have
paradox) or putting it in the body of the email message. I can easily send
an e-mail with the report as an rsl or rdl attachment. How can I convert it
and keep the nicely done formatting (I configured the report to have a nice
header to look like letterhead with the hospital logo etc..)

Thanks,

Craig

I forgot to add I tried using PublishTo. This was somewhat dissapointing.
When I used publishtoWord, the formating was such that it was all screwed
up. I tried pusblishtoRtf with parts of the report being left out. Any
suggestions?
Is there anyway I can completely copy the formatted report page to put into
the body of the email?

Craig

Craig,

I use pdf995. You can automate Paradox to print a pdf, and then use the
paradox mail type to attach the pdf to an email.

Craig wrote:

Tom,
Thanks for your reply. I just looked it up in the web. How do you print to
it? Do you print to a virtual printer and it converts the files?
Craig

"Tom Krieg" <user (AT) domaininvalid (DOT) com> wrote

Sending the rsl or rdl would be pointless unless they have pdox and the exact
tables the report was drawn from. Publish doesn't work well. You have two
choices. Easy one: use a pdf generator and attach pdf to mail. Harder one:
Generate the whole report as html and send it as an html e-mail.

Denn Santoro
President
Resource Development Associates
http://www.RDAWorldWide.Com
Offices in the United States and Germany
Providing solutions to health care, business, governments and non-profits since
1982

yes, it becomes a printer on the machine you install it on. There are a few
tricks to learn if you want to autogenerate file names, place them in certain
locations etc. Lots of threads about it in the groups you can look up.

Denn Santoro
President
Resource Development Associates
http://www.RDAWorldWide.Com
Offices in the United States and Germany
Providing solutions to health care, business, governments and non-profits
since 1982

The first question to ask is what the "email faxer" supports. If you
send it an HTML email, will it fax the pretty HTML or will it fax plain
text? If you send it an email with an attachment (PDF), will it just
fax the text of the email, just the PDF or both?

Figure that out first, then determine how to send the faxer what it wants.

Liz


Craig wrote:

On Mar 13, 11:10 am, Liz McGuire <l... (AT) paradoxcommunity (DOT) com> wrote:
This software creates a PDF which can then be mailed as an attachment
or faxed.
Jean says he has been using it for a long time with a lot of success.
Craig

Pdf995 sets up a virtual printer. You can print any document to that
printer and it will be generated as a pdf. I generate paradox reports as
pdfs in Opal by enumerating printers, looking for the pdf995 printer,
setting that as the current printer and then printing a report to it.
You'll need to have code to check whether the pdf generation has
finished, once it's finished you use the mail type to attach it to an email.

To automatically print to pdf995, you write various parameters to an ini
file using opal, before printing the report to the pdf printer. There
have been numerous posts on this, just search for pdf995.

TomK

Craig wrote:

Hi Uwe, With pdfCreator you use the Printer Options to set up Auto
Save values which specify the name of the pdf document and the
directory where the document will be printed. I currently use the same
opal code to print to pdf, then mail the pdf attachment with MS
Outlook as I did with pdf995. I have just modified the opal code to
specify the new pdf printer and then look for a file with the new name
specifications to attach. BTW I had some problems with pdf995
occasionally printing blank documents, particularly if I had first
asked my HPLJ4 to print a hard copy using an opal coded print button.
I have not had this probelm with pdfCreator... As for any more control
issues, this is all I need to do so I have not pursued them any
further. Regards Paul.