Fax Management System
Overview
The Fax Management System (FMS) system has been developed for sending and managing fax documents from a data-stream (such as Unix) via text files. The FMS can format and configure the layout of the data to be sent. The FMS has been developed around industry standard components such Microsoft® Office 2000/XP suite of software and either WinFax® Pro 9.02 or WinFax® Pro 10.0 software (note, not compatible with WinXP and WinFax® Pro 10.02).
The current version requires Microsoft® Office 2000/XP version but is also compatible with Microsoft® Office 97 and will operate on any operating system (such as Win95/98®, NT4®, Win2000®) that supports Microsoft® Office. FMS will also operate under a networked environment. Illustrated (below) is a typical installation structure.
The interface files comprise of 2 components, firstly the \FAXES-INTERFACES specifies the target telephone number and the number of expected pages. An example of this is below:
The second and more significant file contains the actual fax data as well as document formatting commands. These files are found in the FAXES-OUT\ directory. A summary of these commands are as follows:
New page command, Page orientation command,
Insert image/logo command,
Insert overlay image command,
The tab command,
The line space command, and
Font management commands, such as font, size, bold, underline etc.
An example data file is:
with the resultant fax is:
The FMS main window has 6 tabs, with two of these illustrated below:
Main Tab
Configuration Tab
You may
Send an E-mail Request
for a copy of the Fax Management System documents to be sent back to you via e-mail or you may download a copy of this page directly from this link Fax_Manager.zip.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files require Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader can be obtained from Adobe. 
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