Hi

I have been using PageSender for a while with great satisfaction except some unexplained errors now and then. Now that fax is part of the OS, do you think it is better to adapt the apple script that works for page sender to work with the built in fax of osx 10.3? Does anyone has experience or knows the pro & con for using one of another option?

If it seems better to use apple fax solution, how can I change the script below to work (including attaching documents)?

tell application "Print Center"

-- Page Sender must be the name of the fax driver

set current printer to printer "Page Sender" of application "Print Center"

end tell

tell application "Page Sender Fax Center"

set thePreset to make new preset at beginning of every preset

tell thePreset

set application name to "FileMaker Pro"

set theFaxInfo to make new fax info at beginning of every fax info

tell theFaxInfo

set regarding to "Mail"

set schedule at to "now"

end tell

set theFaxNumber to make new fax recipient at beginning of every recipient

tell theFaxNumber

set phone number to "XXX_FaxNumber"

set name to "XXX_Name"

-- set country code to "1"

end tell

end tell

-- Save the preset file

save thePreset

-- Remove the preset from memory (avoid leaks)

delete thePreset

end tell

tell application "Print Center"

-- HP4000N must be the name of the default printer

set current printer to printer "HP4000N" of application "Print Center"

end tell

I'm trying Page Sender and appreciate the script. The script that came with Page Sender is not working for me on FileMaker 7.

Dumb question: How to you automate whether to dial a 1 for long distance? Since numbers in our same area code may or may not be long distance, I'm wondering if I need a calc field that lists towns that are (or are not) long distance that have our area code...

The formatting of the number to send to PageSender is a bit difficult. I have all my numbers stored in the database as 10 digit numbers. I have a global field with all the local exchanges separated with a space. I then have a calculation field that looks for a match with the above global field and if one is found will remove the area code when passed to PageSender or add the digit "1" to indicate long distance dialing. Just one solution that seems to work, unless I miss a new exchange and tries to send as a long distance call.

I'm trying to use that same script with PageSender (with a few modifications for my database) but I can't get a recipient into the print dialog. Any suggestions?

Are you using FM7, if so please read this forum for the many problems with Faxing/Printing with FM7.