pdf attachment to fax

[gehct]

Hi All,
My setup: win server 2003 sr2 with xp pro clients all fully patched
and up to date.
Clients are faxing useing outlook through the server using windows fax
serivce.
Pdf attachments were faxing fine so long as I set the printto verb to
"....AcroRd32.exe" /t "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" "
The problem is that I just updated adobe acrobat reader to version 8
(from version 7) and now when I try attaching a pdf acrobat opens up
but I get an error message saying "There was an error opening this
document. This file cannot be found."
any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Adobe reader now imposes limitations that do not permit PDF files to be
rendered just by defining a printto verb.

 

[gehct]

Adobe reader now imposes limitations that do not permit PDF files to be
rendered just by defining a printto verb.
--
Russ Valentine





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Many thanks Russ.

Guess I will just have to roll back to version 7.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

....and hope it still works. I've seen reports where it will not work either.

 

[gehct]

...and hope it still works. I've seen reports where it will not work either.
--
Russ Valentine







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Ouch, Please dont do that to me!

well anyways I tested a roll back on a test pc, and it worked fine.
Here's to hoping it will work for the rest!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Good to know. You're doing better than some of the fax developers who can't
get it to work. I have noticed that some of the Internet Fax providers such
as Venali are able to render PDF to TIF on the local machine, but I don't
know if they've been successful with 8.0
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

...and hope it still works. I've seen reports where it will not work
either.
--
Russ Valentine

On Mar 17, 7:44 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Adobe reader now imposes limitations that do not permit PDF files to
be
rendered just by defining a printto verb.
--
Russ Valentine

news:[email protected]...

Hi All,
My setup: win server 2003 sr2 with xp pro clients all fully patched
and up to date.
Clients are faxing useing outlook through the server using windows
fax
serivce.
Pdf attachments were faxing fine so long as I set the printto verb
to
"....AcroRd32.exe" /t "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" "
The problem is that I just updated adobe acrobat reader to version 8
(from version 7) and now when I try attaching a pdf acrobat opens up
but I get an error message saying "There was an error opening this
document. This file cannot be found."
any help is greatly appreciated.- Hide quoted text -

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Many thanks Russ.

Guess I will just have to roll back to version 7.- Hide quoted text -

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Ouch, Please dont do that to me!

well anyways I tested a roll back on a test pc, and it worked fine.
Here's to hoping it will work for the rest!

 

[gehct]

The biggest limitation I found so far, is that the users must be power
users, otherwise they get the generic "failed to print" error....
My problem with internet fax services is the cost per page, we are a
small company, with relativly high faxing needs.....

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

I know. I wasn't suggesting you use Internet Fax, just that Venali's
developers have apparently figured out how to render PDF files to TIF
programmatically, so there may be other ways to do it.

 

[gehct]

I know. I wasn't suggesting you use Internet Fax, just that Venali's
developers have apparently figured out how to render PDF files to TIF
programmatically, so there may be other ways to do it.
--
Russ Valentine





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Cool. Interesting idea. I better go speak to my programmer friends...
will post if there's any news down the line.
BTW any ideas about getting faxing to work for a standard user?
The problem is not related to pdf, I'm getting an error when faxing
any attachment as a standard user. If you need the exact error let me
know and I'll post it.
thanks again

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

To specify security settings

1.. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Printers and Other Hardware,
and then click Printers and Faxes.
2.. Hold down the CTRL key, right-click the required fax printer, and then
click Properties.
3.. To set general printer permissions, click the Security tab.
4.. To set specific fax printer permissions, click the Fax Security tab.
5.. To set advanced fax printer permissions, click the Fax Security tab,
and then click Advanced.
6.. From Group or user names, click a user or group you want to set
permissions for.
If a user or group does not appear, click Add, and type the name of the
user and then click OK to close the dialog box.

7.. In Permissions, click either Allow or Deny to change permissions.