April 21, 2004 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Motorcharge is a leading provider of fuel cards to small and medium businesses throughout Australia.
Motorcharge was using txt2pdf PRO and now is using data2pdf.
This is an example of their old invoices
This is an example of their new invoices made by a new version of data2pdf with the possibility to have in the same document pages in landscape and portrait format.

April 5, 2004 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Plantrol Systems, Ltd. is a trusted custom software solution partner for the printing and forms manufacturing industry. Plantrol provides software and hardware combinations that allow their customers to manage their business without changing the way they do business.

Plantrol's customers needed to send quotations for their products via e-mail and fax, while retaining the ability to print the quote. Because each delivery method requires a unique format, Plantrol was faced with creating three different output processes.
Plantrol decided to use data2pdf to meet this specific need. Plantrol created a database to hold the field names, files, and the positions on the finished document. Plantrol's process sends this information to data2pdf and the resulting PDF file is then faxed, e-mailed, and/or printed, based on the customer's need at the time. Sanface's technology saved Plantrol production time and their customers are very pleased with the options the PDF allows them to exercise.
Plantrol is currently in the process of offering the PDF output as an upgrade and they are also using it as the standard in the new releases of their software. Their Report Program Generator uses data2pdf to create reports as PDF files that can be viewed, faxed, emailed or printed. They've also incorporated data2pdf into OmniTRIEVE, their document management solution.

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.

July 25, 2001 - Reading time: 2 minutes

What is DMS EXPO?
DMS EXPO is a info chainment aptly (at Essen, Germany) describes the entire information chain:

• Information Production (Creation and Layout)
• Information Acquisition (Search, Retrieval and Data Mining)
• Information Processing (Entry and Scanning)
• Information Management (Engineering & Product Data Management, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing)
• Information Storage (Data, Document and Information Data Warehousing)
• Information Development (Knoledge-Management and Customer Relationship Management)
• Information Logistics (Workflow, Supply Chain Management, Output Management, Messaging, Groupware, Networks and Telecomunication)
• Information Archiving (Micrography,Analogue and Digital Archiving)
• Information Security (IT Security and Digital Signatures)
• Information Output (Digital Print On Demand)

Who will be visiting DMS EXPO?
Each September around 20,000 senior business and IT professionals know that DMS EXPO is a MUST ATTEND event. Experts from both home an abroad have partecipated in numerous forums, conferences and presentations.

Visitor pre-registration project
The idea of DMS EXPO was to realize a cgi application where the visitor can per-register himself. This application has to store the data and send on the fly to the email of the visitor his PDF ticket.
This project was developed with few days of work with using the SANFACE Software knowledge and  product.

May 30, 2001 - Reading time: 5 minutes

Motorcharge project

About Motorcharge
Motorcharge is a leading provider of fuel cards to small and medium businesses throughout Australia.
Motorcharge's success in operating over 120,000 vehicle cards has resulted in the company being a leading player in the development and management of co-branded cards, third party cards and an electronic point-of-sale network within the retail motor industry. Over the past 20 years, the range of services has expanded beyond just fuel purchases, encompassing the charging of all vehicle related expense items, including fuel, service, repairs and maintenance as well as accommodation. The Motorcharge system also offers a comprehensive range of management and taxation reports to its cardholders.
Motorcharge first began providing a fuel charge card service in 1981. Motorcharge was the first to electronically capture transactions from service stations in Australia, and its point-of-sale terminal network was amongst the first of its kind in the world.
The more successful Motorcharge becomes, the greater the benefits to members in the form of improved merchant services. Another Motorcharge initiative to benefit members is the introduction of the United 241 (now ReD) EFTPOS terminal. The ReD terminal offers merchants one terminal that can cater for both the Motorcharge card as well as all major bank credit and debit cards. Due to significant buying power, Motorcharge is able to negotiate significantly lower bank merchant service fees on behalf of participating merchants than individuals could achieve on their own. The Motorcharge point-of-sale network now numbers in the excess of 5,000 terminals throughout the country.
Retail Decisions (ReD) is a publicly listed UK company with expanding operations in the United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, the United States and South Africa.
ReD's acquisition of Motorcharge Ltd and Australian Card Services Pty Ltd (Motorpass), specialist card based transaction processing businesses, marked the group's consolidation of their entrance into the Asia Pacific market. Through Motorcharge and ACS, ReD have advanced towards realising its aim of becoming a global provider of e-commerce fraud prevention services and card transaction support services.
With the support of ReD's unparalleled expertise in the development of fully integrated on-line systems, customers benefit from additional card functionality and powerful customer relationship management tools. By use of constantly evolving technologies, ReD is also able to not only detect payment card fraud, but to predict and prevent its occurrence.
This infrastructure provides a platform for a full range of quality card based services, including the development of proprietary label cards. ReD is committed to the delivery of a range of sophisticated, customised solutions designed to suit the changing needs of Australian businesses and an increasingly high level of service.
Whether your business is seeking a vehicle charge card, co-branding arrangement, a card management system or an electronic point-of-sale network, ReD has the ability to provide you with a turn-key solution.

The problem
Motorcharge generates approximately 50,000 invoices per month. These invoices are sent to a mailing house for printing, insertion and mailing to customers.
This method of invoice distribution was considered expensive and time consuming, with some customers complaining of late delivery of invoices due to postal delays.
An alternative was sought to reduce the number of printed invoices and to minimise unnecessary postal delays.
The problem centred around the fact that the main database is sitting in a UniData environment on a COMPAQ Alpha. This meant that using a solution such as Acrobat Distiller was not suitable. However, by using txt2pdf PRO we were able to integrate the Unix portion of the server from within the UniData environment to create a PDF file which could then be forwarded via standard email methods.

Why txt2pdf PRO?
The original specifications of the project involved providing an electronic invoice that closely resembled the existing paper version, while adding elements for electronic integration. Txt2pdf provided the perfect solution - being able to create the invoices on a fly, utilizing already existent PICK code while providing an extensive background file creation to build the first and subsequent pages. We were also able to integrate some small graphics to add a touch of pizzazz to the page.
The e-invoice also features hyperlinks to allow our customers to make online payments through our website. We have gone on to produce specific "watermarks" in the PDF render, allowing us to bring important information such as "Payment Overdue", to our customer's attention.
This is an example of our old invoices
This is an example of our new invoices made by a new version of data2pdf with the possibility to have in the same document pages in landscape and portrait format.
Motorcharge also manage a number of co-branded cards on behalf of third party clients, and we are currently working on being able to offer PDF invoices to our co-branded cardholders.
SANFACE Software have played a vital role in the implementation and roll-out of this project. Their service and support has been exceptional, with minimal turn around times in providing solutions to all problems posed.