MPViewer Help

About Message Port Viewer

Image Manipulation

Printing

Forwarding the fax via email

Refaxing the viewed fax

Pan Window

Application Settings

View Settings

Page Settings

Mail Settings

Viewer Window Handling

Page Selection

Viewer Icons


Viewer Icons

The following are the icons displayed on the MPViewer's main screen.

Mail

Rotate

Mirror Image

Invert Fax

Resubmit Fax

Fit to Width

View Full

Show Normal

Zoom Image

Reduce Image

View Prev Page

View Next Page


About Message Port Viewer

Message Port Viewer provides comprehensive fax viewing capability. You may:

view an incoming fax

resubmit a fax

zoom/scale fax images

enhance the quality of a received fax

perform image manipulations

print the fax on a network printer

forward it via email


Image Manipulation Commands

Image Manipulation

Various image manipulation commands are available in the form of buttons on the toolbar.

Click on the  [image]  icon to rotate the image by 90 degrees clockwise from the current state.

To get a mirror image, use the  [image]  icon.

Click on the  [image]  icon to invert the fax image.  Black text on a white background becomes white text on a black background.

You can horizontally fit the image to your screen width with the  [image]  icon, while the  [image]  icon scales the image so that the entire image is displayed in the window.

The  [image]  icon scales the image to a 1:1 ratio.  To enlarge the image, click on the  [image]  icon. To reduce the size of the image, you can use the  [image]  icon.


Printing

From the MPViewer screen, use the "File" pull down menu and select "Print." The Printer dialog box appears. If you want to use a printer other than the default one, click on "Setup" and select the desired printer. Once you have selected a printer and optioned it as you desire, click on "OK" to print the fax currently being viewed.


Forwarding via email

Forwarding the fax via email

To forward the fax you are viewing, click on [image] to bring up the email dialog box. This dialog box depends upon the kind of email system chosen at the time you installed Message Port. You can enter the recipients' name, email subject, etc., and send the fax using email. The access to your email address book and availability of other features is dependent on your email system.  The received fax files are named rcv##.mpf and the send fax files are named snd##.mpf.


Refaxing the received fax

Refaxing the viewed fax

From the MPViewer screen, click on [image] to bring up the "MessagePort - Send Fax" dialog box.  Select the recipients from the address book or enter one by clicking on "Manual".  Click on the "Send" button to send the fax.


Pan Window

The Pan Window is the small window that comes up on the top right corner of the viewer's main screen. This represents the whole image with a sliding view rectangle in it. You can move this rectangle around in the pan window to display that part of the image in the main window.


Application Settings

This option enables the user to set the configuration parameters for the viewer screen. When the user selects this option, a dialog box with the following parameters is displayed:

Pan Window

Zoom Factor

Smart Features

Show Position

Memory

The user can set the values for the above parameters. The settings can then be saved by clicking the "Save Default" button.  Memory can be set to the amount of pages to be displayed in the viewer.


View Settings

This option helps the user in setting the parameters for the viewer screen. The user can enable or disable the horizontal and/or vertical scroll bars on the viewer screen. You can also selectively enable or disable the icons appearing in the toolbar.  These settings can be saved as the default settings, limited to the current session or limited to the current page being viewed.


Page Settings

The user can set the following page parameters using this option :

Orientation ( Portrait, Landscape)

Mirror or Inverted image

Scaling of the image

Scale Method

This can be done for one or all the fax pages being viewed. You can adjust the scale method to Scale-to-Gray or Scale-to-Binary.  The Scale-to-Gray option enhances the fax image quality for viewing.  You can also set the brightness and contrast with the slider switches provided.


Mail Settings

The "Mail" pulldown menu has options to forward the current fax using email, and to select whether only the cover page, only fax pages or the entire fax should be sent as email attachments.

See also Forwarding the fax via email


 Viewer Window Handling

The "Window" menu brings up a pulldown menu, with options to arrange the windows with respect to each other, bring the cover page or a fax page window to the top, or close all windows.


GoTo Page
Page Selection

The pulldown menu under "Page" provides three selections.  You have the option to view the next page, the previous page, or a specific page in your fax file.  If you select the "Goto Page" option, a page selection dialog box appears.  You can choose the page you want to view and select "OK".  The viewer brings up the selected page.


File
This option helps the user in managing the files.  When this option is chosen by the user, the following choices are displayed in the pull down menu.

Resubmit

Print

Exit


Options
This option helps the user in configuring the environment variables for the viewer.  When the user selects this option, the following choices appear in a pull down menu:

Application Settings

View Settings

Page settings


Window

This option on the menu bar of the viewer screen will help the user in managing the windows. The user can resize, minimize and maximize the window.


Mail

Forward the fax being viewed via email.


Rotate

Rotates the image displayed on the viewer screen by 90 degrees in clockwise direction.  Each time this option is chosen, the image is rotated by 90 degrees.


Flip Vertical
Mirror Image

You can choose this option to flip the image being displayed on the screen vertically about the Y axis.


Invert Fax
Invert Image

Inverts the image displayed on the viewer screen i.e., black on white to white on black.


Resubmit Fax

This option enables the user to resubmit the fax job.


View Horizontal
Fit to Width

Scale the image to fit the entire width of the viewer screen.


View Full

Scale the image so that the whole image fits in the viewer screen maintaining the original aspect ratio of the fax image.


Show Normal

Scale the image to normal size, i.e., 1:1 scaling.  If the display is in the Zoom mode, the user can choose this option to get back to normal display mode.


Zoom out

Magnify the image being displayed on the screen to the next higher magnification level.


Zoom in

Reduce the image being displayed on the screen to the next lower reduction level.


View Prev Page

This option enables the user to view the previous page.


View Next Page

This  option enables the user to view the next page.


Print

This option enables the user to print the fax image currently being viewed.


Exit

This option enables the user to exit the viewer.