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Well how ’bout the portion that does not use the printer driver? It simply uses AddAttachment() to attach fax files and send those, but in that case I end up with one good fax and one bad one, without a fax number in it.

Also as a note, we’ve been using the print driver on XP with winfax 10.02 for the past couple of months with no problems. This is a replacement program I’m trying to write that doesn’t seem to act nice.

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I’m actually doing the same thing, faxing from crystal reports, but I end up going through a couple of extra steps.

1. export crystal report as pdf
2. use ghostscript (free) to turn pdf into a tiff
3. use winfax sdk to turn tiff into fax format
4. add attachment

this works with multipage pdfs as well, although you have to somehow figure out the number of pages within the tiff (I use ImgX dll that my company bought).

the only worry is ghostscript, which takes a little while to figure out, but it can be run in fully batch/auto mode so no user interaction is required. it can also print pdfs to printers, which might be just as good for you instead of going through the mess with tiffs.

I’ve also tried converting the pdf directly to fax format, as ghostscript supports that as well, but I couldn’t find a compatible format with winfax, wonder if it’s proprietary.

anyway, hope this helps

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