pdf forms printing

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AIT- Mark Comins" <mtcomins at delta.aperion.com>
To: "Rod Caddy" <rcaddy at pro-set.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: pdf forms printing


>
>
> 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


Is PS the same as PCL ?  If I have a PCL file generated by filepro can I so
ps2pdf file.pcl file.pdf ?

Enrique.