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In article <rd6yxbj@rpi.edu> hsiaoe@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao) writes:
>Are there any decent FAX programs for IBM & compatibles?  I tried several
>programs, and they stink.  Blastfax from US Robotics is still buggy...
>I tried sending a fax the other day and for the date, it put
>SeptemberOctoberNovember 9, 1992... I try Winfax Pro, and if this is the
>best Windows fax program out there, then the PC is in big trouble.
>Winfax Pro has the barest essential functions to send a fax.  The program
>won't even let you preview a fax before sending it.  There are no desktop
>publishing features in it.  You can't preview your coverpage at all, and
>can only preview the other pages after it sends the fax (what's the point of
>PREview?)
>   Basically, I'm looking for a good FAX program that will let me compose
>a fax very much like the way I would do it with paper.  For example, some
>cut and paste features, using the mouse to draw lines and pictures on the
>page, custom place .PCX and embed other graphic formats onto the page (kinda
>like BBN Slate), place text where I want.  Basically, a fax program with
>some desktop publishing features would be really nice...it doesn't have to
>be Pagemaker quality, but at least have these basic features.  Composing
>faxes should be easy...Winfax Pro makes it a chore. (Can't imagine what
>regular Winfax is like...)
>-- 
I am a little puzzled by your comments. Since Winfax Pro installs as a
windows printer driver, you can do all of the above if your Windows
WP or DTP program can. Most can do the simple stuff you're describing
above. Then when you print the fax, it gets transmitted.
For example I regularly send faxes with a Bitmapped company logo
in the document together with a scanned image of my signature. I do this
via AmiPro but Word4Win etc. should also be no problem.
Both of the above programs have built in drawing packages.
While there is no explicit preview feature, you can always schedule the fax
to send later than time now, and then choose the Winfax View feature.
I just don't get it.

Laurence Chiu