April 25, 2000 - Reading time: ~1 minute

DLT Transportation Services of Kansas City, MO, a premier freight pre-audit and payment service, selected txt2pdf to convert text reports generated for our clients into PDF files.
This solution provides the transition necessary to support imaging for internal usage, allow access of reports by our clients through our web site and distribute reports via CD-ROM.
Our clients demand timely professional management reports assisting accounting and transportation to control and reduce shipping expenses.
txt2pdf provides us the solution to make this possible.

March 18, 2000 - Reading time: ~1 minute

At the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a regional newspaper in Wisconsin, we have been printing a huge volume of reports from our system for years, in addition to newpapers. Over a million pages a month come off of high volume printers in our computer rooms and a large ammount of labor is dedicated to managing these reports and delivering them to users.
We were looking for a way to make these reports readable online. PDF files seemed to be a good option in attempts to make an uneditable, online readable file.
We found txt2pdf through pdfzone and tried it out. This was a program that we had talked about building ourselves, but that would have taken a lot of time. With just a small amount of programming to clean up the files that were comming off of legacy systems.
We are now using txt2pdf in a major project to develop a web based report reading application.

November 2, 1999 - Reading time: ~1 minute

FREQUENTIS Nachrichtentechnik GesmbH uses txt2pdf to convert parts lists which are generated out of SAP R/3 from ASCII to PDF.
txt2pdf is controlled by SAP R/3 to convert the ASCII-Files from a definite directory path to our electronic hardware documentation archive.

October 25, 1999 - Reading time: ~1 minute

ATI is using txt2pdf to convert ascii report files from our Accounting/Manufacturing software package into pdf files that can be accessed via our intranet.
The reports are formatted for an HP LaserJet and we have a script that removes the control characters out of each report file, then processes it through txt2pdf.
The resulting files are placed into directories on our intranet. The pdf's can be accessed individually, by looking through the directories or by performing a search using HTdig.
I have set up HTdig to use a pdf parser program to index the pdf files. So far, this process is working great for the initial 9000 reports that were converted.
I plan to do some further work and implement a way for the users to select to "archive" a report at the time that they run it. Currently, I am moving files manually as our Accounting/Manufacturing system is a DOS based system, using btrieve in Netware, and does not have emailing capabilities. Our intranet is running on Redhat Linux.
This project has opened up a great opportunity for us to expand this into everyday use. We have a lot of month-end and year-end reports that are printed thatcould just as effectively be stored "on-line".

September 1, 1999 - Reading time: 2 minutes

Kolberg Informatics used txt2pdf for a client to convert about 70.000 ascii documents into pdf format (batch job running under Windows NT on an Intel 200 MHz machine, elapsed time 72 hours). The conversion is part of a Y2K solution. Analysis reports (ascii) generated by non-Y2K systems in Pharmaceutical Development shall be available in a web/intranet application from the year 2000 on. The ascii docouments were parsed for index/search information that is stored in an Oracle database together with references/hyperlinks to corresponding pdf files, located on a web/intranet server. All processes/software/tools were validated because they are part of a GMP (good manufacturing practices) environment that might be inspected by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration, USA). Acrobat's pdf files are the perfect solution for viewing/printing formatted documents in a web application. Txt2pdf was exactly the tool we were looking for to do the job. The support by Sanface during the evaluation of txt2pdf was great.

"I think what I am doing is quite unique.
It would be of interest to those with ibm mainframes running os/390 unix.
I am converting an ibm mainframe reports with machine or asa carriage control to pdf format with txt2pdf. The reports are actually in ebcdic datasets. I wrote a small java program to convert the carriage control to ascii form feeds and newlines prior to using txt2pdf within a small shell script. The shell script runs under a TSO REXX exec in a batch proc step sandwiched between OPUT and OGET tso commands to get the reports in and out of the OS/390 unix file system. What was so surprisingly pleasing to me was that txt2pdf produced ebcdic pdf files under OS/390 unix. I then convert them to ascii pdf datasets in OS/390 MVS with the OGET command. They are then served up with the OS/390 webserver as MVSDS datasets with standard OS/390 security." (Vincent Gazzillo)