MS Shared Fax Driver and HTML rendering

[Todd Miller]

Does anyone know of any limitations on which HTML tags
the Microsoft Shared Fax driver can not render. I have a
web application that I have developed and I have a button
that when clicked creates and Outlook Object which used
HTML body to build the body of a email/fax. It send a
fax out through the MS Shared Fax server on my Widnows
2000 server. But some of the tags in the HTML string
which build the body of the message are not recognized,
mainly any TABLE tags, included in TD, TR, and any
attributes in these tags. I have spend weeks in research
and have found no documentation on this topic and the
liimitations of the fax driver Microsoft ships with its
Shared Fax Service. Any help would help.

 

[Raghavendra R [MSFT]]

I haven't completely understood your scenario, but this information may
help. Microsoft Fax component doesn't try to understand any particular file
format. It just calls print on the file type and the corresponding
application (for .html/.htm, this is most probably Internet Explorer) takes
care of actual rendering. So if you are able to print the body using an
application, you should be able to fax it.

Please provide additional details for further assistance. What is the actual
API/method you are using to send the fax? What is the error message you get?
Is the problem also with email or is it just with fax?

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[Todd Miller]

Here is the Function I am using to create the object to
fax:

Private Sub btnFaxGuestCard_Click(ByVal sender As
System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
btnFaxGuestCard.Click
Dim myOLApp As New Outlook.Application
Dim myOLItem As Outlook.MailItem

myOLItem = myOLApp.CreateItem
(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem)
myOLItem.BodyFormat =
Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML
With myOLItem
.To = GetFax()
'.Subject = GetSubject()
.HTMLBody = GetFax2()
.CC() = GetCC()
.Send()
End With

'cleanup
myOLApp = Nothing
myOLItem = Nothing

End Sub

The .HTMLBody = GetFax2() is a dynamic HTML string. It
pull the dynamic or variable data and some of the tags
are rendered, but the table tags, any attribues the table
tag, as well has image source tags are not picked up
which throughs the formatting off. I am a reference to
the Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object. As stated before the
HTML string is a normal HTML string, nothing fancy in
it. If you want I can post that as well.

 

[Todd Miller]

The problem is only in faxing. I have a CC set to my
email address and it comes to me fine, so it is just in
the actual faxing of the document.