RE: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer

John,

There are many Forms Products available that will allow you
to bar code your variable spool data such as our FormFlex
product. 
FormFlex price is less then $3,000 (no tier pricing here)
Which makes it very affordable and probably cheaper then
writing your own code for several forms.

You can try if out with our free 15 day trial.

John Allen 

DRV Technologies
866.378.3366
www.drvtech.com


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Michael Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:41 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer

You can create the forms using MS Word and turn those into
AFP
overlays. You can then use overlays and page segments to
generate the
form. I like this method more than using forms packages, and
I've used
a few. Check the archives for more information.

On 2/13/07, John Taylor <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

Our organization is modifying a number of our forms to

include bar codes and

other graphics, which requires us to generate AFP spool

files instead of

SCS. Unfortunately, Code Designer has not been updated in

years, and never

was able to do AFP documents. I know there is a program

called Infoprint

Designer that provides a WSYWIG way of defining AFP

documents, but the

product is prohibitively priced at $5000 U.S. per

workstation, plus

additional fees for the server component. At that price,

Infoprint Designer

is just another nail in the coffin of the iSeries around

here.

I realize that we can hand craft the DDS, but that's very

time consuming and

error prone. It's just not something that I'm willing to

waste my time doing

for the sole purpose of keeping the printing on the

iSeries. Our choices

boil down to either finding a reasonably priced iSeries

alternative to

Designer, or moving our printing onto the PC platform. I'm

writing the list

to see if anyone knows of an alternative to Designer. If

you have something

that you're currently using and happy with, I'd love to

hear about it.

Vendors are welcome to reply directly to my email address.

Just a thought... but shouldn't Designer have been rolled

into WDSC anyway?

Business applications tend to require forms printing. Why

don't we have a

modern forms designer included in our development toolset?

Regards,

John Taylor

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