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 -Original Message---

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 -Original Message- From: Trevor Ockenden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 March 2004 05:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text file to PDF And now for something comp

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.) Lee J Messenger Sr VP Operations [EMAIL P

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. -Original Message- From: Trevor Oc

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. > -Original Message- > From: Trevor Ockenden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Text file to PDF > > > And now for

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 M: +61 414 731 634 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is

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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, supp

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 .

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-e

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 -- u2-users mailing list [EMAI

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 substitutio

RE: Re Text File to PDF

2004-03-31 Thread Troy Buss (Logitek Systems)
they said they would have a leaner pcl to pdf 'text' version later this year. -Original Message- From: Tony Gravagno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:53 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: Re Text File to PDF Troy Buss wrote

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. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users