Butler Manufacturing Company and txt2pdf
September 19, 2000 - Reading time: 2 minutes
Butler Manufacturing Company, Inc., -- the world's leading producer of pre-engineered metal building systems and architectural products for the nonresidential construction market -- uses SANFACE Software TXT2PDF to generate immediate reports to its network of over 1,200 Butler Builders around the world.
Butler Builders receive automatic e-mail notices providing them with a link to the online .PDF Bill of Lading report for each truck shipped for a given order.
Builders typically receive this e-mail within 2 hours of the loading of the truck, giving them very timely notice of the pending delivery of materials to their job sites.
The Bill of Lading report is the same one that is delivered on each truck, and includes a list of all parts on that truck (if the truck has parts for more than one order, the report shows a grouped list of parts for each order).
An OpenVMS system in place at each of Butler's six North American plants generates the initial text file (which is still used to laser-print a paper report for loading on the truck).
Each ASCII text report file is then converted to Acrobat files on a Windows NT server using TXT2PDF; the resulting .PDF files are then placed on a web server and the filename/URLs are e-mailed to each builder registered on the company's extranet to receive such notices.
Butler was very pleased with the high level of support and personal attention provided by the TXT2PDF creators during the implementation of the project, and we continue to receive positive comments from builders who now have a way to monitor the status of their orders as they move through the manufacturing and shipping process.
To dynamically convert text reports
May 5, 2000 - Reading time: ~1 minute
TransCanada Pipelines is using txt2pdf to solve the printing limitations of related web browsers.
Text reports are dynamically converted to PDF format and made available to our customers through our web based operational reporting tool.
Customers are then able to view and print the reports with the proper page breaks.
txt2pdf provided us with a simple, low cost, user friendly solution to get around the browser's html printing limitations.
To generate and send printable certificates
May 1, 2000 - Reading time: ~1 minute
UNICON Inc., a leading provider of customized e-learning solutions, selected txt2pdf PRO after an extensive review of competing products. "We needed to be able to generate and send printable certificates to our customers.
SANFACE was able to create modifications to the software and customized templates for our use.
The solution allows UNICON to automatically generate PDF files and send them via email. The txt2pdf PRO product enables us to deliver formatted PDF certificates that can easily print on a variety of platforms.
SANFACE was easy to work with and provided excellent support throughout the project.
DLT Transportation Services and txt2pdf
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.
To develop a web based report reading application
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.