Re: Iseries Forms design and spool merging software

Joel,

2 hit me offhand...  Acom and the forms goodies that comes with Quadrant's
tools....

Email me offline if you want contact info....



On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Stone, Joel wrote:

> We are considering purchasing a forms design and spool merging software
> product.
>
> Does anyone use any of the following products?
>
> Are there any others available that I should look at?
>
>
> Create!Form                           www.createform.com
>
> Acom EzDocs/400                       www.acom.com
>
> Formtastic/400                        www.quadrantsoftware.com
>
> eliteForm/400                 www.elitedocuments.com
>
> Winspool/400                  www.rjssoft.com
>
> Formsprint/400                        www.formsprint.com
>
>
> What features should I be asking about?  Here are some preliminary ones that
> I thought of.  Can you suggest any other important features that would be
> nice to have?
>
> .     No additional charge for each new user or printer
>
>       (This is critical because we don't want to limit the distribution of
> a successful, popular report.)
>
> .     Tool must support PCL (all normal PC type printers) and Postscript
> type printers, and without any additional hardware    at each printer
>
> .     Tool should be capable of taking a standard spool file and changing
> fonts & adding bar codes WITHOUT program changes.
>
> .     Tool should be capable of doing the above WITH control codes
> embedded in the program.
>
> .     Form design tool should be a graphical Windows-based WYSIWYG tool at
> form design stage.
>
> .     Report should successfully print with only an AS/400 working
> (without a PC doing any merging or formatting after the       design
> stage)
>
> .     One should be able to design a single label and have the template
> replicate to all labels on a page.  For example,      a sheet of 1" x 4"
> retail shelf tags.
>
> other features???
>
>
> Thanks!!
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