Union Distributing Company has been a Fuel and Lubricants distributor in Phoenix Arizona since 1986. Hundreds of customer orders are printed everyday.
When the delivery of product is made, the order is confirmed and an Invoice is printed.
Many invoices are faxed rather than printed.
Union Distributing needed a form that would look good and be versatile.
It needed to be able to be printed, faxed, mailed and now e-mailed.
The custom accounting system is on a Unix platform running SCO OpenServer 5.
We needed a way to generate this form and overlay the data and then print to our high speed copier for dispatch.
When confirming the invoice, we needed a universal format in which to email.
We knew we could use Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
But how would we create them from our Unix server?
That's where txt2pdf PRO comes in.
With the txt2pdf PRO program we have been able to output not only our orders and invoices to PDF, but now all of our reports can be printed to disk and stored in PDF format for later review.
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Banco Central del Uruguay project
El Banco Central del Uruguay is engaged in various efforts to discontinue the generation and conveyance of physical documents replacing them, as far as practicable, with digital documents being sent by e-mail. For that purpose, and to avoid disturbing changes or possible rejections by the individuals involved, we have sought to substitute the physical documents and related procedures by digital versions designed after their own "image and likeness" (realistic pictures of documents and procedures formerly used.)
In order to automate the delivery of personnel salary receipts previously issued on pre-printed sheets showing a photograph of the bank´s building site, it was conceived the generation of graphic format documents easily readable via an Internet navigator or by an e-mail customer. The automatic generation of these documents implies the superposition of two layers, the one with the building´s photograph and the other with variable data corresponding to each officer´s earnings and discounts per month.
Upon checking out with local companies and exploring the industry via Internet, the product txt2pdf PRO was reached solving the problem in a prompt and effective manner.
An example of a personal salary recipt.
El Banco Central del Uruguay está realizando diversos esfuerzos a fin de suprimir la generación y el traslado de documentos físicos, sustituyéndolos en lo posible por documentos digitales que se distribuyen mediante correo electrónico (e-mail). A los efectos, y a fin de evitar cambios traumáticos o eventuales rechazos por parte de las personas involucradas, se ha buscado sustituir los documentos físicos y los procedimientos asociados a ellos por versiones digitales diseñadas a "imagen y semejanza" de los documentos y procedimientos que los antecedieron.
A efectos de automatizar el envío de las liquidaciones de sueldos de los funcionarios que se distribuían en hojas preimpresas con la fotografía del edificio sede del Instituto, se ideó la generación de documentos en formato gráfico de fácil lectura mediante un navegador de internet o un cliente de correo electrónico. La generación automática de estos documentos supone la superposición de dos capas, una con la fotografía del edificio sede y otra con los datos variables que corresponden a haberes y descuentos de cada mes y cada funcionario.
Una búsqueda que abarcó consultas a empresas de nuestro medio y exploración de la industria a través de internet, condujo al producto txt2pdf PRO que permitió solucionar el problema en una forma rápida y eficaz.
Cuando vimos la posibilidad de poder mezclar la información tomada de las Bases de Datos en Pick con gráficos y semigráficos para poder generar un documento en PDF, empezamos una nueva etapa en la generación de informes. Estos son los procesos que hemos modificado utilizando el programa txt2pdf PRO de Sanface Software:
Miguel Angel Arribas
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Hurley Medical Center project
"I am the Senior Programmer Analyst responsible for the Human Resources/Payroll System (GEAC) at Hurley Medical Center an hospital in Flint, Michigan
I was requested to look for alternatives to using our mainframe printers. The cost for maintaining the printers was getting rather expensive and they are investing in software to redirect printing to our print shop here. My departments didn't really want the reports to print there.
We generate around 90,000 pages of paper during our pay run. Most of this is copied to fiche. But we still print between 10,000 and 12,000 pages during a pay. We had tried using Word to capture the reports because of page breaks but it significantly increased the file sizes and it takes a considerable amount of time to do it. I turned to the Web to look for alternatives.
With txt2pdf PRO we were able to capture and create PDF files. It uses less disk space and I can put a years worth of data on one CD. It cut the time to convert down by 3/4th. My next task will be to right policies and procedures so the Operations Department can assume the processing of the data for my users. Your help as we tested the product was thorough and produced exactly what I needed."
Keith T Hearsch