sending .tif files as fax directly from outlook 2003

[Ron Finzi]

i used to fax documents as attachments directly from outlook 2000. now
in outlook 2003 when i try to fax a .tif file as attachment i get an
error message : The Microsoft Fax transport failed to deliver the
message to the recipient. Not all attachments can be rendered. I can
still send TIF files to fax addressees using the fax printer, but it's
much less convenient. does anyone know how to overcome this? thanks

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

I wondered when someone else would finally discover this.

In Office 2003, the task rendering of TIF files has been changed from the
Windows Picture and Fax viewer to the Microsoft Office Document Imaging
application (MODI), presumably to accommodate the new Internet Fax Service.
But no matter how one defines the printto verb for TIF files these
transmissions fail. Curiously, the file is sent instead to the operating
system's default printer but the message from Outlook fails with a "failure
to render" NDR. There are three workarounds I've found so far. First is to
insert the TIF file as a picture in an Outlook message, but with this method
only the first page of a multi-page TIF can be sent. A better alternative is
to open a multi-page TIF in MODI and use the Print to Fax command from
there, as described above. The final method is the best, but has not yet
been tested extensively (meaning only I've tried it as far as I know). For
some reason in Office 2003, the file associations for ".tif" and ".tiff"
have been changed to MSPaper.Document. It is the printto verb for
MSPaper.Document that must be either created or changed in
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSPaper.Document\shell\printto\command] to:

rundll32.exe <DRIVE>:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_PrintTo /pt
"%1" "%2" "%3" "%4"

Once that is done, TIF attachments are rendered and sent from Outlook
without a problem. So far I've seen no regression in any other Office
functions by adding this verb. Even the Internet Fax Service still seems to
work correctly.

 

[Ron Finzi]

After further trials by my son - it works!
Thank you very much. Now I can stay with Office 2003 rather then return to 2000.
Thanks again.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Good. Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP DTS]]

Bravo Russ!!

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Good. Thanks for the confirmation.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

After further trials by my son - it works!
Thank you very much. Now I can stay with Office 2003 rather then return

to

2000.
Thanks again.

 

[jobi]

This worked fine in Windows XP, but I get an error in Win2K.

When I try to send a .tif attachement, I get a message that say
"misses ImageView_PrintTo..."

It is something wrong in shimgvw.dll.

Can anyone help me

job

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

An odd thing has happened to TIF files once Office 2003 is installed. I've
seen no official information on this, but have noticed the following:
In Office 2003, the task rendering of TIF files has been changed from the
Windows Picture and Fax viewer to the Microsoft Office Document Imaging
application (MODI), presumably to accommodate the Internet Fax Service. But
no matter how one defines the printto verb for TIF files these transmissions
still fail. Curiously, the file is sent instead to the operating system's
default printer but the message from Outlook fails with a "failure to
render" NDR. There are three workarounds I've found so far. First is to
insert the TIF file as a picture in an Outlook message, but with this method
only the first page of a multi-page TIF can be sent. A better alternative is
to open a multi-page TIF in MODI and use the Print to Fax command from
there, as described above. The final method is the best, but has not yet
been tested extensively. For some reason in Office 2003, the file
associations for ".tif" and ".tiff" have been changed to MSPaper.Document.
It is the printto verb for MSPaper.Document that must be either created or
changed in [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSPaper.Document\shell\printto\command] to:

rundll32.exe <DRIVE>:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_PrintTo /pt
"%1" "%2" "%3" "%4"

Once that is done, TIF attachments are rendered and sent from Outlook
without a problem.

 

[David]

An odd thing has happened to TIF files once Office 2003 is installed. I've
seen no official information on this, but have noticed the following:
In Office 2003, the task rendering of TIF files has been changed from the
Windows Picture and Fax viewer to the Microsoft Office Document Imaging
application (MODI), presumably to accommodate the Internet Fax Service. But
no matter how one defines the printto verb for TIF files these transmissions
still fail. Curiously, the file is sent instead to the operating system's
default printer but the message from Outlook fails with a "failure to
render" NDR. There are three workarounds I've found so far. First is to
insert the TIF file as a picture in an Outlook message, but with this method
only the first page of a multi-page TIF can be sent. A better alternative is
to open a multi-page TIF in MODI and use the Print to Fax command from
there, as described above. The final method is the best, but has not yet
been tested extensively. For some reason in Office 2003, the file
associations for ".tif" and ".tiff" have been changed to MSPaper.Document.
It is the printto verb for MSPaper.Document that must be either created or
changed in [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSPaper.Document\shell\printto\command] to:

rundll32.exe <DRIVE>:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_PrintTo /pt
"%1" "%2" "%3" "%4"

Once that is done, TIF attachments are rendered and sent from Outlook
without a problem.

Dear Russ

This has sorted out a problem I have been having. Thank you.

Kind regards
David
Anagram Systems Limited
04/02/04 16:34:11