Quick Link II Fax  (250-3027B)  Viewing and Printing   Faxback Doc. # 3232
                                    Faxes In DOS

There is little point in receiving faxes unless you can easily look at
them and print them.  The following explains how to print and view faxes,
as well as provides a description of fax files and their usual locations.

Quick Link II Fax has a standard naming convention for received faxes that
they are saved in.  All received fax files have the three letter file
extension .REC.  Also, faxes are numbered sequentially and have the word
FAX as the first three letters in the filename.  Therefore, your first
received fax will have the file name FAX0001.REC.  Received faxes also get
saved in the same directory every time, so there is no need to search your
hard disk for fax files.  The default location is the Quick Link II Fax
directory (normally C:\QL2FAX), though this can be set differently with
the Receive Fax Setup dialog box under the Setup menu.

The files created by you to fax out have a virtually identical internal
format as received fax files, but they have a different three letter file
extension so you can easily keep track what faxes are incoming and which
are outgoing.  These outgoing fax files are .QFX files and these are the
files that you create when you convert your documents and graphics files
to the faxable format by choosing CONVERT DOCUMENT or SEND FAX from the
FAX menu or select SAVE or SEND AND SAVE from FastFax - QFX files normally
get stored in the Quick Link II Fax directory (normally C:\QL2FAX).

It cannot be stressed enough that REC files and QFX files are basically
the same type of files with different three letter extensions.  They are
viewed, printed, faxed out, and in every other way handled the same way by
Quick Link II Fax.

Viewing faxes

Faxes don't just appear on your screen automatically - you must first call
the REC or QFX fax files into view.  The simplest way to do this is to
pull down the FAX menu and choose VIEW FAX DOCUMENT.  When chosen, the
VIEW FAX FILE dialog box appears, allowing you to select a fax file to
view.  If you know the name of the fax file you want to view simply type
the file's name in the FILE NAME text box and press the ENTER key;
otherwise, select the file from the list box (press the TAB key if you're
using the keyboard) and click OK or double-click on the file.  In order to
test the viewer right now, choose the file README.QFX, a fax file that was
created when you followed the previous chapter's section on faxing out
within Quick Link II Fax.

Once a file is selected to view, your screen changes into graphics mode
and reads in the fax file, finally displaying the first page of the upper
left corner of the fax at full size.  While viewing a fax, pressing the
F1 key or ALT-H calls up the QL II FAX VIEW HELP dialog box, which
displays all of your commands and options while in the Viewer.  They are:

    KEY           ACTION

    F2            Zoom Out (Fit page to Screen)/Zoom In (Full Size)

    F3            Previous Page (multiple page fax only)

    F4            Next Page (multiple page fax only)

    F5            Invert Image (Toggle)

    F6            Flip Image Vertically (180 degrees)

    Arrow Keys    Move Up, Down, Left, Right

    PageUp        Move 1 Screen Up

    PageDown      Move 1 Screen Down

    Home          Top of Page

    End           Bottom of Page

    Ins           Left Edge of Page

    Del           Right Edge of Page

When finished viewing a fax, pressing the ESCAPE key returns to the main
application.

Printing faxes

Printing faxes is a very simple process, so you can easily have hard
copies of your received faxes to photocopy and pass around.  Quick Link II
Fax is compatible with most graphics capable dot-matrix and Hewlett
Packard compatible printers - if you can print out graphics files or from
within MicroSoft Windows, chances are you printer will work.

Setting your printer

Before printing a fax, you must tell Quick Link II Fax what printer you
have from a provided list.  This section will walk you through quickly
setting up your printer; if you have a problem or for more information,
please refer to the Hardware Setup section of Chapter 9.

To configure your printer, pull down the SETUP menu and choose HARDWARE.
Click on the Type button, and scroll through the resulting list until your
printer is highlighted - when highlighted, click the SELECT button (or
press ENTER).  Choose the appropriate LPT port from the next dialog box,
then click SAVE, then OK.

Printing the fax

Once Quick Link II Fax knows WHAT printer to print to, printing faxes
consists of two quick steps.

1.  Pull down the FILE menu and choose PRINT FAX.

2.  Scroll down the list box and select the fax file you want to print, or
    type the name of the fax file you want to print in the FILE NAME text
    box.  In the FILE NAME text box, "*.REC" is listed, which means that
    only files with the .REC extension (your received faxes ) will be
    listed.  To list your .QFX files, type ".QFX" in the FILE NAME text
    box and press ENTER; to see all files in the directory, type "*.*" and
    press ENTER.

Once selected, a status dialog box appears to tell you what file, what
printer, and what print quality is being accessed.  To print another fax
file, repeat steps 1 and 2.

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