Viewing faxes on XP : Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

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Viewing faxes on XP

19th December 2003 by Simon

I’ve been using a fax to email service run by DM Club for a number of year. On the odd occasion that some _has_ to send me a fax, it enables me to receive faxes where ever I am, straight to my inbox as a DCX graphic. It functions well.

Luckily I don’t get too many faxes these days, so infrequently in fact that I haven’t had one since upgrading to XP back in August this year. When one dropped in to my mail box recently, I found that the viewing DCX format is no longer supported by the XP.

I had a look around to see what could be used instead, and after a brief review I found Irfan View, which is free for non-commercial use.

The number of graphic formats that it covers is hugely comprehensive

AIF�, ANI, AU�, AVI, B3D, BMP, CAM, CLP, CPT, CRW, CUR, DAT�, DCM/ACR, DCX, DIB, DJVU, DLL/EXE, ECW, EMF, EPS, FLI/FLC�, FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JP2, JPG/JPEG, KDC, LDF, LWF, Mac PICT�, MED, MID, MNG/JNG, MOV��, MP3, MPG/MPEG�, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, OGG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PhotoCD, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, QTIF�, RAS/SUN, RealAudio, RAW, RLE, RMI, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, MrSID, SWF, SND�, TGA, TIFF/TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, WMF, WMA, WMV, XBM, XPM, (NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR).

Having looked through its list of functions, just using for viewing faxes is frankly insulting to it - it looks like it could actually replace any graphics viewer. As an example, it has a slide-show facility that also enables you to build a executable file or burn a CD to give to people.

All in all, well worth a look.

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