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!

November 16, 2004 - Reading time: 2 minutes

Athlon Car Lease Germany project

Athlon Car Lease Germany is an independant supplier for car leasing and fleetmanagement in Germany. Athlon developed an unique web portal for online full service lease, the portal is called Autopnet. This portal is the reference for local benchmarks for online leasing and fleetmanagement.
As developerplatform we are using the oracle development-tools combined with the oracle database and oracle applicationserver. For the backoffice we are converting from Oracle Forms 6i to Oracle WebForms.

The problem.
All our external correspondence we are producing within our backoffice, has to be in pdf-format. With our standard reportingtool it is possible to create a pdf-file but it was not that flexible. We allso had some problems with specific fonts and had little problems to get a suitable layout.
So we searched for an easy-to-use tool to solve our problems.

txt2pdf PRO.
We did some testing and choose txt2pdf PRO because this is an easy-to-use tool. There are lots of possibilities for configure the pdf-file, we could easily adjust the layout, we can use our company-logo, etc. For the moment we are using a small part off the possibilities, but lateron we will have a look at the other possibilities to create professional documents. We will allso have a look to offer pdf-functionality within our webportal, I guess txt2pdf PRO will be used within that project allso.

August 9, 2004 - Reading time: 2 minutes

The Columbia Forest Products project

Columbia Forest Products (CFP) is North America's finest manufacturer of hardwood veneer, hardwood plywood, flooring and laminated products. Sold through a network of wholesale distributors, mass merchandisers and major OEMs, Columbia Forest Products' decorative interior veneers and panels are used in high-end cabinetry, fine furniture, architectural millwork and commercial fixtures.

CFP has embarked on an extensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation for its Plywood Division that will tie together the manufacturing, distribution, sales, and accounting functions and provide greater control and accuracy of the business processes throughout the division. The focus of the project is to provide Perfect service, every time to CFP customers, ensuring that the customer receives their product of choice, made with highest quality and delivered at the right time. The system is being installed in CFP locations across North America, linking together CFP sites and CFP customers via a common database and common processes.

The reports generated daily by this new system can be very detailed and can be several hundred pages long. The SANFACE Software txt2pdf PRO utility allows CFP to take text output and create a document that is easily sent via email to be viewed uniformly on each end user's PC. With txt2pdf, CFP can greatly reduce the size of a report through compression, which reduces network load significantly. The txt2pdf software is particularly useful given the heavy load that transferring and printing massive reports would create on CFP’s intranet. Because CFP’s manufacturing facilities are located in rural areas where bandwidth can be expensive, the utility has significantly reduced potential transmission costs as well.

May 17, 2004 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Eastern Washington University project

As budget restrictions and resources grow tighter, Eastern Washington University has chosen Txt2pdf-PRO as a tool to enhance productivity and reduce expenses.

Each of our student, financial, and loan management enterprise systems generates nightly reports that are distributed across campus. With these paper reports comes a number of costs that we are trying to reduce:

• Cost of paper and its handling
• Cost of report distribution
• Cost of additional copies
• Cost of report handling
• Printer and hardware maintenance
• Physical storage
• Usability costs

With Txt2pdf-PRO, we are able to reduce expenses and increase productivity in each of the above areas. Txt2pdf-PRO runs on our mainframe OpenVMS system. However, as Txt2pdf-PRO is cross-platform and can run on any of our servers, we are guaranteed that it will run on future servers and operating systems and that we can scale its use to an enterprise level as its functionality is leveraged to benefit Eastern Washington University.

March 19, 2004 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Asian Computer Services Pte Ltd (UICACS) SANFACE Software partnership

Asian Computer Services Pte Ltd (ACS) was incorporated in 1972 under the umbrella of Haw Par Group, owned by UOB Group. Our core product, PAYmaster Payroll Module was developed in 1990 and has been one of the pioneer payroll vendors supplying Payroll Solutions to Singapore and Malaysia market.

PAYmaster has been used by more than 1000 organisations of various sizes and from diverse industries. After the merger with UIC Technologies Pte Ltd in year 2000, being stronger both financially and in physical backup, it further enables UIC Asian Computer Services Pts Ltd (UICACS) to improve the level of professionalism on the services offered to all its valued customers.

UIC Asian Computer Services Pte Ltd recently partnered with SANFACE Software to convert selected confidential PAYmaster reports into PDF documents with password encryption. TXT2PDF Pro + Crypt is selected as the tool to be used for PDF conversion after evaluating other products. With the security component of this tool, it helps PAYmaster to maintain the confidentiality of the payroll reports. The tool is easy to use and can be executed in the command line. Sanface’s TXT2PDF Pro + Crypt helps our product, PAYmaster, to generate a paperless confidential report. This tool also provides the usage of a background design in the reports that are useful for some of our customers.