Hm, there is nothing like "plain text" when
faxing. Faxes only "understand" bitmapped
graphic data coded according to the standards
mentioned by Alex. Your PIC has to create
the bitmap (possibly one "row" at a time, but
anyway) before sending it to the modem.

So if you'd like to send a line of text, you have to
first send the upper "dots" of each individual
character on that line. Then start at the beginning
of the same line but one "pixel" below and start over.

In a way "emulate" what the scanner part of an old-time
fax machine did.

Maybe, just *maybe*, there *could* be a reason you
havn't seen this idea before :-)

Now, everything would have been different if therer was
modems with the raster engine builtin. I havn't seen
anything like that...

Regards
Jan-Erik.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kris [mailto:piclist@ADVANCEDTECHNIKA.COM]
Sent: den 12 april 2003 16:57
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE]: Faxing via modem


Thanks for that info which is exactly what i needed.

I was thinking of sending plain text - nothing fancy - just to be able to
give daily reports of statistics. I'm doing this for a refrigeration unit
and i'd like to supply a list of temperatures throughout the day as a
hardcopy to the contractor.

I am suprised that i have not seen this idea before. Seems like an easy way
to keep computer illiterate types in touch with their products in the field.

Rgds, Kris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Alex Holden
> Sent: Sunday, 13 April 2003 12:31 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Faxing via modem
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 15:09, Jan-erik Svderholm (QAC) wrote:
> > So, what model of a PIC can handle a graphic
> > fax bitmap file ? A "flavor" of TIFF, right?
> > And the space to store character bitmaps ?

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