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From: wluo@brahms.amd.com (Wilbur Luo)
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Subject: Re: How can you Save Winword Doc as PCX/TIFF for Fax ?
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Date: 10 Dec 90 17:19:51 GMT
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I'm doing the same thing (Winword to PCX) and have had mixed success.

I have both FaxIt and Hijaak (2.01C).  

FaxIt is great if you want to just dump what you have (i.e., document) to
the faxcard. All the fonts and graphics are preserved and the output
looks cool.  Basically faxit takes over your printer driver and becomes
the fax driver.

But say you wanted to save the results in a PCX file (which FaxIt does
not do), and then fax the PCX file... Well, if someone can tell me
what they have tried, I'd be grateful.

What I have done is use Hijaak.  You creats a PCL (HP's printer control
language (i.e., redirect the output to a PCL file). And then you use
Hijaak to do the conversion to whatever type of file you want (including
specific fax conversions). Sounds great in theory right? Well, I can't
get this Hijaak to work, and tech support is NO HELP.  Thumbs down on
their product (until they it becomes more solid).

-W