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neil-bouvier4849 asked John Wang Deactivated commented

Fax: Node.js ringcentral sdk. html document altered by fax. Any ideas?

Faxing HTML documents. Nothing complex, yet the documents are oddly malformed when received.

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John Wang Deactivated answered
It's hard to debug this without some data on what you're sending.

Please provide a sample malformed fax HTML you are sending.
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Tyler Liu answered
If the HTML file has a companion CSS file, please inline it. Paste the CSS content into a <style> tag in HTML.

Please provide a sample file if it still doesn't work.
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neil-bouvier4849 answered
No CSS.  I've been emailing this HTML document for quite a while.  Ringcentral appears to take issue with nested tables.  The pattern is evident and should only take a few hours to recode and test.
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Tyler Liu answered
I've been emailing this HTML document for quite a while
Are you saying that it used to work but stopped working recently?

Ringcentral appears to take issue with nested tables.  The pattern is evident and should only take a few hours to recode and test.
So this issue could be reproduced with an HTML file with nested table?
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neil-bouvier4849 answered
I'm working on it now.  It works perfectly when eMailed, but the nested tables fail on fax.  I have a solution.
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neil-bouvier4849 answered John Wang Deactivated commented
The issue isn't the HTML, it's the base64 images.  The image emails, but does not fax.
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John Wang avatar image John Wang ♦♦ commented ·
Can you provide an example that does not render as desired?
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Tyler Liu answered
We are unable to provide you with further instructions because we don't know the detail of the issue.

Please provide us with the sample HTML and steps to reproduce the issue.
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neil-bouvier4849 answered John Wang Deactivated commented
Tyler, I have a base64 string I need to include in a fax.  Is this doable?
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Tyler Liu avatar image Tyler Liu ♦ commented ·
Not sure what you want to do. But a base64 string is still a string. You can include that in a fax as plain text (just like you send a plain text "Hello world"). The receiver of the fax has to read the base64 string you sent which might not make sense to him/her.
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John Wang avatar image John Wang ♦♦ commented ·
Neil, Do you mean in an image tag source or CSS like the examples below? If one approach works via email but not API for you please let us know which one.

Image tag source example:

<img src='data:image/png;base64,iVBOR...' />

CSS background example:

background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBOR..)
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