RE: Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-31 Thread Troy Buss (Logitek Systems)
Tony,

Thanks for the idea.  In my project, I already have the PCL'ized reports
done.  I've used pcl2pdf before and it creates a nice (small) PDF file ready
for viewing or emailing.

regarding my earlier comments re active fax ...  I checked with the
www.actfax.com  folks last night and they said they would have a leaner pcl
to pdf 'text' version later this year.



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Troy Buss wrote
>Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html 
>) and blat for this other project I'm working on.

Hey Troy, long time bud.  Hope all is well.

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RE: Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
Troy Buss wrote
>Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html 
>) and blat for this other project I'm working on.

Hey Troy, long time bud.  Hope all is well.

I have code here that I haven't had time to fully productize it yet.  Very
simply you populate a variable with substitution strings, and pass it to a
routine that generates an HTML page, PDF, or PostScript.  It's all clean
BASIC code, there's no funky printer/device-specific escape sequences (PCL
or PS) and you can change the report layout independently from the app code.
Using a similar "set vars and call a subroutine" interface, you can also
e-mail the resulting files - no SendMail, Outlook, or other mail client or
server code required.  All of this will work over Windows or Linux (Blat is
great but it doesn't work over Linux).  I'll be porting this to U2 within
the next couple weeks.  So far there is one happy client that's been using
it over D3 for several months.  I think they'll provide a  good reference if
asked.

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Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Thank you all for your responses to this query. I will have to go into this further. 
If I can determine anything worthwhile I'll certainly post my comments (assuming we 
have a list).

Cheers

Trevor Ockenden
Open Systems Professionals
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Re: Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Craig Bennett
Troy,

I don't think you can escape a conversion to image data for a faxed
solution.
For emailing it will depend on your PDF generator, but I can't imagine why a
PDF generator would turn text into images as a first preference (certainly
our product doesn't).


Craig

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RE: Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Troy Buss (Logitek Systems)
I've used active fax  from www.actfax.com with good results for faxing.
However, while investigating usage as a large report PDF emailer, it
generates huge PDF files since the content is converted to a graphic.  7
pages is 714kb.  Whereas using PCL2PDF the file is 14KB.

Does VSI-FAX or other pdf-enabled email/fax solutions handle the PDF
conversion as text instead?

Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html ) and blat for
this other project I'm working on.

Thanks!
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Re: Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Karl L Pearson
We use VSI-FAX from Esker software. When you submit a job to the fax
server for forwarding to an email address, it converts the file to pdf
on the fly. There's no pre-processing necessary. The default is to
convert it to a .tif file, but there's a switch in the .ini file to
change that default to .pdf conversions, which we prefer.

Karl

Thanks Clif. Your service has been remarkable. As a hoster of email
lists, I applaud you. I know what you've been doing...

KLP

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 11:04, Schalk van Zyl wrote:
> Trevor,
> 
> We did that (and more - like 'printing' to email) with txt2pdf from 
> SANFACE (www.sanface.com)
> Cheers.
> 
> Schalk
> 
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> And now for something completely different!
> 
> Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports in the 
> &HOLD& file to PDF
> files for subsequent e-mailing.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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RE: Text file to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Andrea Charles
We just downloaded a shareware product from www.pstill.com and it works well
with our uv created reports.


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> 
> And now for something completely different!
> 
> Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports 
> in the &HOLD& file to PDF files for subsequent e-mailing.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Trevor Ockenden
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RE: Text file to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Haas, John
Trevor,

We have many reports that are converted to .pdf and emailed daily without any 
intervention. We user Pcl2pdf software from Visual Software. Te product is very 
inexpensive.  All you need to remember is the -lt:2 option on the command line.

John.

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Subject: Text file to PDF


And now for something completely different!

Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports in the &HOLD& file to 
PDF files for subsequent e-mailing.

Cheers

Trevor Ockenden
Open Systems Professionals
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RE: Text file to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Lee Messenger
Trevor,

We have used a utility called 'txt2pdf' since 1999 and it has worked and
performed very well.  It integrates well and is quite reasonably priced.
Look for it at www.sanface.com

(By the way, we receive no gratuities/royalties for this suggestion.)

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And now for something completely different!

Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports in the &HOLD&
file to PDF files for subsequent e-mailing.

Cheers

Trevor Ockenden
Open Systems Professionals
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Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-30 Thread Schalk van Zyl
Trevor,

We did that (and more - like 'printing' to email) with txt2pdf from 
SANFACE (www.sanface.com)
Cheers.

Schalk

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And now for something completely different!

Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports in the 
&HOLD& file to PDF
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Cheers

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Re: [AD] Re: Text file to PDF

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Bennett
>within UniVerse without any operating system or external dependencies.

Whoops, that should have been UniVerse or UniData.


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[AD] Re: Text file to PDF

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Bennett
Trevor,

We have a product which will let you do this (and much much more) all from
within UniVerse without any operating system or external dependencies.

You can convert your reports in BASIC or from TCL, create sequentially if
your input is large, squash wide format down to A4 add graphics, support NLS
etc etc.

Go to www.cross.net.au/pdf.asp for a look and to request a trial version or
mail me offlist if you would like to look into it further.

regards,


Craig

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RE: Text file to PDF

2004-03-29 Thread Cameron Booth
Hi Trevor,

Did a quick google and came up with this one.

http://www.eprg.org/pdfcorner/text2pdf/

Os command line utility (win and *nix)

At first appearance it looks alright.

Cheers,
 
 
Cam Booth
Analyst Programmer

Ultradata - Vision to Reality
www.ultradata.com.au
 

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And now for something completely different!

Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports in the &HOLD&
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Cheers

Trevor Ockenden
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