1.6. What's in this Guide

This guide is organized into the following chapters and appendices:

Chapter 1 provides an introduction to this guide, its purpose and audience, documentation conventions, related publications and contact information.

Chapter 2 is an overview of Dialogic fax software. Included is information on product support, key product features, the fax library, sample demonstration programs, voice/fax integration, system configuration models and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.

Chapter 3 presents the basics of fax communication. It covers fax terminology, the structure of a fax call (ITU-T T.30 protocol), fax data formats, data encoding schemes, types of fax transmission and more.

Chapter 4 discusses the implementation of fax send capability in your application. It presents guidelines and direction on using the fax API and other function calls to send a fax.

Chapter 5 covers the implementation of fax reception capability in your application. It presents guidelines and direction on using the fax API and other function calls to receive a fax.

Chapter 6 discusses the various methods to load fonts for use in ASCII to fax conversion.

Chapter 7 describes the data structures used with fax library functions.

Chapter 8 is an overview of the Dialogic fax library (API). It describes the categories of fax functions, error handling and required include and library files.

Chapter 9 provides a complete alphabetical reference to the fax library functions.

Appendices provide a reference for TIFF/F Tags and Values, Fax Phase D Status Values, Fax Phase E Status Values, Fax Error Codes, Fax Event Codes, ASCII to Fax Tables and acronyms used.

A Glossary and an Index are provided at the end of this guide for reference.

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