March 29, 2018 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Mandala Systems offers customized customer statements as a component of its fuel oil distribution application, running on OpenVMS.
Txt2pdfPRO allows us to provide customers the option of a PDF attachment via email that is an exact replica of the pre-printed monthly statement.
Here the final pdf
www.mandala.ca

September 18, 2012 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Cronus Consulting, Software AG’s global and exclusive migration partner, migrates NWK limited a South African based company from zVSE to zLinux.
The zLinux solution includes txt2pdf PRO + Crypt and sendemails from SANFACE Software who was instrumental in providing the Open Systems solution.
Using the SANFACE utility software the client is able to automatically convert all text based reports to enhanced PDF documents without any code modifications.
The solution is implemented on a IBM z114 mainframe running zLinux s390. Thousands of typical reports are now emailed as PDF documents and confidential documents are encrypted and password protected.

June 21, 2006 - Reading time: 4 minutes

i-Modulas Software BV is a young Dutch software developer that brings an established and respected solution for the rental business of construction machines and materials to the internet. The users of i-Modulas rent the usage of the i-Modulas solution per user by the month. To start i-Modulas, they have to go to www.i-modulas.nl from where they can start the application.
Most i-Modulas reports are stored in text format in personal user directories from which they can be viewed or printed. With txt2pdf we have added a third option “make a pdf” to this. By pressing a function key the text report is converted to a pdf file and shown in the default pdf-viewer. From there it can be printed, but also e.g. mailed to a colleague.

Details:
History
i-Modulas Software BV is a young Dutch software developer that brings an established and respected solution for the rental business of construction machines and materials to the internet. The application was originally developed for Unix in the 80-ies under the name “Modulas”. Later, when Windows came up in the business environments, also Windows was supported. When at the beginning of the new century the clash came in the ict industry, the original developer of the application got into problems. An investor bought the application and decided to modernize it and to bring it to the platform of today; the internet!

Concept
In the old days, users bought a license, got a CD and installed the application on their computer. Today the users of i-Modulas rent the usage of the i-Modulas solution per user by the month (the so called ASP concept!). To start i-Modulas, they have to go to www.i-modulas.nl from where they can start the application. They can access i-Modulas from every pc with an internet connection. There are also several pda’s that can be used with i-Modulas, so the information is always at hand, wherever you may be.

Usage of txt2pdf
Most i-Modulas reports are stored in text format in personal user directories from which they can be viewed or printed. With txt2pdf we have added a third option “make a pdf” to this. By pressing a function key the text report is converted to a pdf file and shown in the default pdf-viewer. From there it can be printed, but also e.g. mailed to a colleague.
With the support of pdf i-Modulas could modernize the report interface without too large technical efforts. An example, this is how a certain report looks in the old-fashioned way:

Exactly the same report looks as pdf in the Adobe viewer looks like:

And under Linux,  is shows more or less the same as under Windows:

Experiences with txt2pdf
We were amazed how simple we could integrate txt2pdf with our i-Modulas application. The initial coding took about two days. During a long test period we experienced some problems which mainly had to do with the fact that during all the years we had included some tricks in our text reports to solve all kinds of printer problems. Some of these had to do with page handling and they conflicted with txt2pdf. We found Sanface prepared to help us with this, but in the end decided to solve this issue ourselves. We now use a kind of filter technique to filter the data before we pass it to txt2pdf. This has proved to be very effective and very reliable. Since then txt2pdf creates every day many pdf reports for all our users without any problems.

May 20, 2005 - Reading time: 2 minutes

Money Movers Inc. is an electronic funds transfer 3rd party processor. We have several hundred corporate clients and have been in business for over 15 years. Money Movers is dedicated to accurate personal service for all of our customers. We are running on Windows-2000, 2003, and XP. All of our programs are written in Cobol. I guess you would call our system a “legacy system”. We have been around for quite some time! The processing of billing data requires multiple BATCH jobs for volume processing. Money Movers Inc. has been using txt2pdf PRO for the past few years to enhance the reporting process. In the past we produced hundreds of invoices and processing reports, and mailed them to our customers. Thanks to txt2pdfpro have eliminated the postage expense involved with mailing hundreds of letters per month. Due to the sensitive information contained in these documents, we needed a safe and convenient way to send information over the internet. Txt2pdfpro allows us to dynamically generate PASSWORD Protected PDF documents with line graphics, shading, and company logos with embedded URL links and email connections. Our system automatically generates PDF reports which are sent to customers via email. Customers are able to download and / or view their invoices on the Internet thanks to the password protection feature in this product. These features not only save the company time and money, they allow us to provide better services to our users and customers.

The customer service at Sanface is better than great. They have always been knowledgeable, prompt and thorough in responding whenever questions I've had. In our business customer service is paramount to success; Sanface is a company I would absolutely recommend.

Thanks for the professional great product and support,

Kem Sisson
Money Movers Inc.

Here you can find an example of our invoices, now in PDF!

March 4, 2005 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Auto-Wares Inc. is a group of companies in the automotive parts aftermarket business. Auto-Ware is dedicated to selling to the jobber, re-supplies and services over 800+ auto parts stores.
Auto-Wares has been using txt2pdf PRO for the past few years. In the past we produced invoices on preprinted forms. Thanks to txt2pdfpro we no longer need to purchase these forms. Txt2pdfpro allows us to dynamically generate PDF documents with barcodes, line graphics, shading and company logos. Employees can generate PDF reports which are sent to them via email. Customers are able to download or view their invoices on the Internet. These features not only save the company time and money, they allow us to provide better services to our users and customers.

The customer service at Sanface is great. They have always been prompt and thorough in responding whenever I've had a question.

Thanks for the great product and support,

Martin Kale
Auto-Wares Inc.

Here you can find an example of our invoices, now in PDF!