pdf forms printing

[AIT- Mark Comins]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Rod Caddy wrote:

> We have a project that requires a very quick turn around and fairly intense thought process.  We are writing a database for an insurance agency that will be printing policies.  What we want to do is scan the blank forms and then lay the data over the forms and print them.  We would pull the data from filepro and tell the appropriate forms to print.  Eventually, we will web enable the project but that is not at the top of the list of priorities.  This is on a Windows NT network running a mixture of XP and Win98se workstations.  We have done a good bit of research on the pdf and fdf merge products and this appears the way we want to go.  I would appreciate any input you may have in this area.  We have 30 to 45 days to get policies printing.

I would suggest you contact Spectra Colour Services of Vancouver, BC about
a product they had offered in the past called mkpcl.  Their phone number
is (604) 738-6112 and I believe they offer a UNIX and a Dos version of
this product.  We had used this to scan in insurance policies and had
filePro fill out the appropiate fields.

We had used this process to both fax tif files and email pdf files to
their customers.  In UNIX we used enscirpt and ghostscript's ps2pdf script
file to convert the filePro output to a pdf.  I believe the same utilities
for are available in Dos or you could get a commercial pdf convertor for this
project.  Look at this link for suggestions on ghostscript.

http://www.math.ucla.edu/computing/user_support/internet/www/ps2pdf.html

Mark Comins
mtcomins at aperion.com


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