Microsoft Fax Extended COM

I am investigating automating fax output from a Visual Fox
Pro application. The MSDN details for the "Body"(ie. the
document to be faxed) states that Word,Excel and text
files are accepted formats but gives no details of other
formats.

Can anyone help?

Tom Macaulay

>-----Original Message-----
>Essentially any document that can be printed - to be more
specific - the
>application supporting the document must support the
PrintTo verb.
>

I had read that which is why I posted this message. Other
fax applications with COM objects offer 2 ways to fax
documents. By attachment of a file or by routing of the
document at point of production within the application
through the fax printer driver.

The MSDN details given suggest that an attached file is
the only option.

From MSDN for FaxDocument.Body, "Examples of documents that you can send as
a fax body are a text file (.txt), a Microsoft Word document (.doc), or a
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls). When you send a fax from a client
computer, the body has to be associated with an application that is
installed on that computer, and the application has to support the PrintTo
verb; otherwise, the fax will fail.."

So, the format that you want to use has to be associated with some
Application and that application must be able to print the document.

Thanks, Anand

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Ananda Sarkar
Microsoft Printing, Imaging & Fax Team


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"Tom Macaulay" <MTMC10@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I am investigating automating fax output from a Visual Fox
> Pro application. The MSDN details for the "Body"(ie. the
> document to be faxed) states that Word,Excel and text
> files are accepted formats but gives no details of other
> formats.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Tom Macaulay