These options define all the activity within the scope of Fax Reception. The Notify After(days) and Remove After(days) fields in the Configuration screen are not implemented in this version of HotWire EasyFAX, meaning that received faxes are never automatically purged. You must periodically remove old faxes that you no longer wish to keep on your hard drive.
Enabling
incoming Fax processing - When you first install HotWire EasyFax the
Fax Listener is turned off, meaning that no faxes will be received. This
is the default because the modem and serial port have to first be properly
defined before the listener process can be started. Once all your modem
and serial port parameters are properly configured you can enable the Fax
Listener. The Fax Listener can accept Fax Connections, Data Connections
or both, automatically determining which type of connection is being attempted
and taking the appropriate action. There are two steps to enabling fax
reception the first time. Go to the Admin->Configuration
option off the main menu. In the Configuration screen you'll see a section
at the bottom called "Communications Parameters". In this section you can
select what types of connections you want to accept. You should select
at least Fax connections for the label "Inbound connections allowed:".
If you're going to login or permit others to login on the same modem you
should also check the Data checkbox. Press the OK button
to save your changes. Now that you configured the types of connections
acceptable, you need to enable the Fax Listener by pulling down
the Admin->Listener option and selecting Enable Listener.
To disable the listener simply select Disable Listener. NOTE: Neither
Data nor Fax connections are accepted if the Fax Listener is disabled.
Automatic printing of received Faxes - Faxes can be automatically printed when they are received, or not, according to your preference. To have received faxes automatically printed upon receipt go to the Admin->Configuration option off the main menu and in the section labelled "Printing and Resolution" select the checkbox labelled Print Incoming. Deselect this checkbox if you don't want faxes to be automatically printed when they are received.
Automatic purging of received Faxes - In the Configuration screen you can set faxes to be automatically purged after a certain number of days. Set the number of days to 0 to disable the auto-purge feature. If a fax has been neither read nor printed, it will not be purged automatically and you must purge it manually. NOTE: This feature is not implemented in this version of HotWire EasyFax.
Printing
received Faxes on demand - Faxes can be printed at any time or as many
times as desired. To print a fax you must start the FaxVue program
by pressing the (tortoise) button on the toolbar. Once the FaxView
program appears, press the IN button on the vertical toolbar to
the left of the image display window. Highlight the desired fax in the
displayed list and press the Print button below the list box. From
the resulting popup dialog choose the Printer, Printer Type, Page Range
and any other parameters and press the OK button.
Viewing received
Faxes via X-Windows - To view a fax you must start the FaxVue
program by pressing the (tortoise)
button on the toolbar. Once the FaxView program appears, press the
IN button on the vertical toolbar to the left of the image display
window. You are presented with a sorted list of received faxes, ordered
chronologically, most recent first, oldest last. You can select the fax
you want with the mouse and press the OK button below the list,
or simply double-click the right mouse button on the fax you wish to view.
Manual deletion of received Faxes - Select the fax you wish to delete (described above) and press the Delete button below the list box.
Forwarding
or "CC"-ing a Fax - Any fax can be forwarded on to another destination
without the need for you to go back to the main HotWire EasyFax screen.
If you're viewing a fax and want to send a copy to another person, simply
press the CC button on the toolbar or select the File->Forward
to .... option off the FaxVue main menu. You will be presented
with a dialog box requesting information about this forwarding operation.
Choose a destination from the Destination Information combobox,
or enter a new name and number. Change the Sender information if
desired. The Send original coverpage option is ignored for received
faxes and is intended for use only with outgoing faxes. You may prepend
a new coverpage if you so desire by checking the Prepend New Coverpage
option. If you have chosen to prepend a coverpage you may merge some text
into it as well by checking the Merge Text checkbox. Checking the
Merge Text option will popup a small window allowing you to enter
up to 4,000 character of text to merge. Press OK to go ahead a forward
this fax, or press CANCEL to go back to the Forward dialog
and change any options or cancel the operation entirely.
Zooming
and rotating the Fax image - It is fairly common for faxes, or certain
pages of faxes, to arrive upside-down. While this doesn't matter much with
a paper fax machine (since you can easily turn the page around) it would
display the page upside down in the viewer. So that you don't have to stand
on your head to view these pages, you can press the Downward-looking
Tortoise button on the toolbar to turn the page upside-down. The other
tortoise buttons will cause the "received" top of the page to be displayed
in the position of the head of the tortoise as displayed on the toolbar
button. You could also rotate the image by select the Orientation
option off the main menu. There are three sizes that an image can be displayed;
they are DEFAULT, ENLARGED and REDUCED. The toolbar has three buttons with
a frontal view of the tortoise representing these three sizes. The fax
image can also be zoomed by selecting the Zoom option off
the main menu.
Inverting
the foreground and background colors - Sometimes a fax comes in and
its really dark, making it hard to read. You can exchange the foreground
and background colors to make it easier to read by pressing the Checkered
Tortoise toolbar button or by choosing the Orientation->Swap
Foreground/Background option off the main menu. If the image is still
not legible you should export it to an external graphical format (described
below) and manipulate the image with some other graphic editor or utility.
Exporting
the Fax image to another graphical format - To export an image to a
standard graphical image first you must display the page that you wish
to export in the viewer (only one page can be exported at a time). The
press the EXP button on the toolbar. From the resulting dialog choose
the format that you want to export to and enter the filename (or pathname)
of the file that you want this image stored into. When done making your
selections press the OK button. This is a slow process and may take
from 1 to 15 seconds to complete.