Delrina, whose WinFaxPro made a splash in the Windows market, has now introduced the product to the Macintosh world. The Mac version of FaxPro shares many of the virtues of its Windows counterpart, such as a highly flexible address-book function.
The address book can include individual addresses, or fax lists (each of which can contain a number of addresses). FaxPro can forward your received faxes to a single recipient or a group. You can also assemble a series of fax documents (even from different apps) and send them all at once. Or you can create a fax and broadcast it to one or more mailing lists.
When you first install FaxPro, the software checks your modem for compatibility and then installs several extensions, two desk accessories, and a control panel. The control panel, NoChooser, lets you select the fax driver by holding down a modifier key (the option key is the default). This saves on trips to the Chooser. The fax driver lets you send the fax immediately, defer sending the fax to a specific time, or just save a fax file for later processing.
To view and print your fax, you must launch the FaxPro application. The fax file itself is an image that can’t be edited, but FaxPro includes an OCR engine licensed from Caere (publisher of OmniPage) that allows you to save your faxed documents in several formats.
Despite a number of powerful and useful features (some, such as its advanced addressing capability, aren’t available in other Mac faxing software), the first edition of FaxPro ships with a few bugs and interface quirks. For example, you can print your documents manually, or opt for the AutoPrint function. But this feature is activated by a non-movable window — while the window is open, you can’t do anything else on your Mac. Except for this interface quirk, FaxPro can do its chores in the background. Also when you want to print your fax, be prepared to wait a while. A three-page document containing simple text took over an hour to image on an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630. Delrina says it’s aware of the bug and expects to correct it soon.
FaxPro supports PostScript fonts (with ATM) and TrueType fonts, but like other fax software, it won’t process EPS graphics except as bitmapped PICT representations. Aside from this limitation, fax quality is very good in both directions.
Unlike its competition from Global Village Communication and STF Technologies, FaxPro makes you manually disable the autoreceive fax mode in FaxPro’s ModemStatus desk accessory before opening your communications software to log on to your favorite BBS or online service — and you must turn on autoreceive when quitting those programs. Other fax software automatically frees the serial port when you open your communications program and recaptures it when you quit. At press time, Delrina announced version 1.5 of FaxPro, which will include this feature and add support for Apple’s Communications Toolbox.
For maximum OCR accuracy, a fax should be sent in Fine resolution mode, and contain clear, sharp type. FaxPro’s OCR accuracy is decent, but the program must treat large documents as individual pages. This can be time-consuming, since the OCR application has to load every time a new page is processed.
The manual that comes with FaxPro is well printed and easy to follow. Technical support is available by fax or phone, and responses are prompt and helpful.
FaxPro isn’t fully compatible with Global Village’s fax modems (according to the company, version 1.5 will be). Except for FaxPro’s sophisticated address-book features. Global Village’s own fax software is easier to use, more reliable, and, in general, superior to FaxPro.
But if you don’t have a Global Village modem and your present fax software doesn’t provide satisfactory address-book features or OCR capability, and you can forgive some of FaxPro’s shortcomings until a bug-fix arrives, FaxPro is well worth considering.
Steinberg, Gene. (February 1994). Delrina FaxPro for Macintosh 1.0. Macworld. (pg. 67).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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