eFax - Your Total Fax Solution
by Kristyne McDaniel
McStyles Software uses eFax, and we are very happy with our choice. For a very reasonable price, we get a robust faxing solution that works
for our small business needs. We no longer use a fax machine to send or receive faxes. In fact, we usually don't even print our faxes.
There's a better way to send and receive faxes. For our purposes that is eFax. With eFax, we type in the text for a cover page, attach the
documents or scanned files to that cover, then click Send.
Receiving documents is easy too. You can get a toll-free or local fax number, and anyone can send their faxes to your number. When a new fax
comes in, you get an email with the fax itself attached as a PDF or image file. That way, you can get your faxes no matter where you are.
You can send many types of documents via eFax. Virtually any standard document type can be send as-is by eFax. You can send graphics, word
processing, spreadsheet, PDF, or nearly any other file type. A partial list of the file types is below:
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Document Type
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Version
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Extension
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Example
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Adobe Photoshop
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3.0 and above
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.psd
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myfax.psd
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Adobe Portable Document Format
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All versions
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.pdf
|
myfax.pdf
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Adobe Postscript
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All versions
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.ps
|
myfax.ps
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Amiga Interchange File Format
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Raster Bitmap only
|
.iff
|
myfax.iff
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Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
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GIF87a
GIF89a
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.gif
|
myfax.gif
|
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Encapsulated Postscript
|
All versions
|
.esp
|
myfax.esp
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JPEG Joint Photography Experts Group
|
All versions
|
.jpg
|
myfax.jpg
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|
PC Paintbrush Graphics
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All versions
|
.pcx
|
myfax.pcx
|
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Portable Network Graphics
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All versions
|
.png
|
myfax.png
|
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Tagged Image File Format
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All versions
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.tif
.tiff
|
myfax.tif
myfax.tiff
|
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TruevisionTarga Format
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All versions
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.tga
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myfax.tga
|
|
Visio Drawing
|
3 and above
|
.vsd
|
myfax.vsd
|
|
Windows Bitmap
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All versions
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.bmp
|
myfax.bmp
|
|
Word Perfect Graphics
|
2.0 and above
|
.wpg
|
myfax.wpg
|
|
Microsoft PowerPoint
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4 and above
|
.ppt
|
myfax.ppt
|
|
Corel Presentations Slide Show
|
96 and above
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.shw
|
myfax.shw
|
|
Microsoft Publisher
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98, 2000
|
.pub
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myfax.pub
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Hypertext Markup Language
|
Well formed, with base href tag required
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.html
|
myfax.html
|
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eFax Messenger Document
|
eFax Messenger
|
.efx
|
myfax.efx
|
|
j2 Messenger Document
|
j2 Messenger
|
.jfx
|
myfax.jfx
|
|
Microsoft Excel
|
5, 95, 97, 2000
|
.xls
|
myfax.xls
|
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Lotus 1-2-3
|
2, 3, 4, 5, 96, 97, 9.x
|
.123
wk1
wk3
wk4
|
myfax.123
myfax.wk1
myfax.wk2
myfax.wk4
|
|
Quattro Pro
|
6 and above
|
.qpw
.wb1
.wb2
.wb3
|
myfax.qpw
myfax.wb1
myfax.wb2
myfax.wb3
|
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Comma Separated Values
|
All versions
|
.csv
|
myfax.cvs
|
|
Corel Word Perfect
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5.x, 6, 7, 8, 9
|
.wpd
.wp5
.wp6
|
myfax.wpd
myfax.wp5
myfax.wp6
|
|
Lotus Word Pro
|
96, 97, 9.x
|
.lwp
|
myfax.lwp
|
|
Microsoft Windows Write
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All versions
|
.wri
|
myfax.wri
|
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Microsoft Word Document
|
Win: 95, 97, 2000, 2003
Mac: 4, 5.x, 95, 98
|
.doc
|
myfax.doc
|
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Plain Text
|
All Versions
|
.txt
.log
.err
.c
.ccp
.h
|
myfax.txt
myfax.log
myfax.err
myfax.c
myfax.ccp
myfax.h
|
|
Rich Text Format
|
All versions
|
.rtf
|
myfax.rtf
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