December 12, 2003 - Reading time: 2 minutes

Nazdaq (Nazareth Data Quest Ltd.) has signed a more strict agreement with SANFACE Software.
Nazdaq will use our technology to produce PDF files from Baan.
The press release published on PRWEB.

NAZDAQ provides cost effective tools to enable Baan users to automate business processes. B2Win (Baan2Windows) makes it easy to take reports into Ms-Excel and documents into Ms-Word or Acrobat. B2Email (Baan2Email) helps companies email Baan reports in nightly jobs or using an Outlook-Like Interface. B2Mail-Merge allows automatic sending of documents by email or fax to employees, customers or suppliers in PDF format.

NAZDAQ tools are installed at hundreds of Baan sites in more than thirty five countries.

B2Win and B2Email tools allow the creating PDF files directly from Baan. Reports produced from Baan can have a company logo, footer and a signature. A background image can also be added to serve as pre-printed form, all combined from the text that comes from the Baan ERP system.

Tools from NAZDAQ that produce PDF files work with a special licensing agreement from SANFACE Software, a leading provider of command line PDF creation tools. According to Bader Mansour, CEO of NAZDAQ, "txt2pdf and data2pdf tools from SANFACE Software were chosen even though there are many other tools out there to make PDF files, some are even free". "Tools from SANFACE Software work on Windows and Unix Environments and are very fast and robust. Our customers are mostly big manufacturing companies who want to convert big reports into PDF format. The support we have received from them was also key in our decision to use their tools, as they were very flexible to add new features, like support for Eastern European languages, Hebrew and Arabic".

September 4, 2003 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Certified Angus Beef project

Certified Angus Beef LLC is using a data2pdf in combination with JavaScript to help our partners create sales sheets for their products.
They can select pre-written and approved copy, add personalized product data and/or their company logo, then create the PDF. The file is then printed or photocopied onto the back of our pre-printed professionally designed template pages (full-color photos on front, mostly blank on back).
The process makes it easy for our partners to create their sell sheets since they don't have to worry about designing or writing copy.
It also saves in printing costs.

A sample of a sales sheet.

August 26, 2003 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Océ made a corporate agreement with SANFACE Software to "use txt2pdf for an internal application (ASCII files to pdf)" (Michael Kronthaler) and signed an agreement to allow us to cite the project.

June 29, 2003 - Reading time: 3 minutes

Great Falls Public Schools project

About Great Falls Public Schools
Great Falls Public Schools is a K-12 education school district in Great Falls, Montana. We have over 11,000 students. Our business system is an HP3000 mini-computer.

The problem
We produce many paper reports for our employees and were looking for a way to cut down on our paper consumption. We also had an archival issue in that keeping large paper reports was cumbersome and ineffective.

Why txt2pdf PRO?
Txt2pdfPRO was chosen as it was available for the HP3000 (read Installing txt2pdf on 3000) and we were able to incorperate a process to convert our paper reports into usable PDF documents that we could ftp or e-mail for use. We created a process that we could have the reports generated and ftp'd to a server to the appropriate location for the responsible user. The PDF generation is achieved by selecting the PDF print device as the destination device. We then have a process that checks that device for output and converts it to PDF files and transfers it to the server. This also allows us to copy the PDF documents to CD for archival purposes. End result is a much more effective process that requires minimal paper.
We were able to simulate green bar 8.5 x 14 inch line printer paper for our reports as well as dealing with the form feed issue on the 3000.

Summary
Benefits derived from this project:

• Printing less paper with faster turn around (PDF faster than printing).
• Can archive PDF documents vs having reams of paper for archival.
• Significant paper and ribbon savings.
• Large reports are now cataloged and full-text searchable.

This is a sample report output

Author
This synopsis was compiled by:
Bob McGregor
Great Falls Public Schools

June 6, 2003 - Reading time: 2 minutes

Mosecker is a reseller of sanitary, heating, steel and kitchen products in Germany.
Our main software (SanGross by SHD) is running under Digital OpenVMS. With txt2pdf PRO we were able to send offers and other papers to our customers via EMail (with PDF-attachment). Usually we send these documents via fax. But we think, sending them via EMail is not so expensive. In the next few weeks i will change our software to send invoices to out customers and to send orders to other firms.

View a PDF example offer

Here a project we made using txt2pdf PRO:
We developed a intranet-system, which is used by our sales personal (from home or from office). The system is HTML based and completely written in Cache Object Script code.
At some pages (5 at the moment) the user is able to view sales statistics for the last 3 years. The results are displayed in HTML tables. Here now is the point, where TXT2PDF Pro helps us. The collected data may be downloaded (with a simple click on a button) into a file. At the download window the user may choose between CSV-format, TXT-format or PDF-format. The CSV and TXT files are "handmade", the PDF file results of the TXT file.
At the next step (comming in the next few weeks) our users will be able to (re)-print costumer-invoices directly to PDF-format. Here will TXT2PDF Pro convert the stored TXT-data to PDF files "on the fly".