Test of FAX capability

This page demonstrates the FAX-it-to-me software. All you have to do is stick the little button below on any page. When the user presses the button, it takes them to a form where they can fill in their FAX phone number, and optionally a name and company name. These last two just go on the cover sheet; they're not used for anything else.

When the FAX form is filled out, we then convert the HTML to Postscript using a fairly simple converter and then FAX the Postscript file (converted to FAX format, of course) out to the user.

If you don't like how the .HTML-to-.PS converter works on a particular page, you have a couple of options. The first is to get the html2ps source code (it's written in Perl) and fix it, then give it back to us.

The other option is a little more interesting. What the FAX script does is look to see if there's a file with the same name as the page being FAXed, but with an extension of .PS (instead of .HTML or .HTM or .HTMLX or whatever). If that file exists, then IT will be sent instead of the .HTML-to-.PS conversion. So if you have a page which you think you want to FAX out to a lot of people and you don't want the simple converter, you can convert it yourself using any tool available to you, save the Postscript, and we'll FAX that.

Some of the tools you might use include Netscape itself, or a word processor like Word. Note that we are happy to help you work with the script, but aren't very interested in helping you tune your Postscript output.

Although the button below is known to work, basically any way you can get to the faxpage script will be a fine start. Thus, you might just put a simple link on the page to do the same thing. It's up to you.

This FAX script only allows for 7-digit phone numbers; you can't dial long distance at all. Well, not for free anyway. If you actually want to FAX things to people outside of Tucson, we'll expect you to pay for the toll charges for your FAXes. The easiest and cheapest way to do that is to use your own calling card to charge the call. If you want to do that, let us know, and we'll help set it up for you.

If you're too lazy to do a view source on this page to see the code for the button, here it is:

<form method="POST" action="/htbin/faxpage">
<input type="submit" value="  FAX Me This Page  ">
</form>

and here is the code for the link:

 
<a href="http://www.opus1.com/htbin/faxpage">link</a>

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