Re: Creating PDF

["Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes.

Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: RE: Creating PDF


> But... does Adobe automatically email (with MAILTOOL), FTP, and save to
the
> IFS? Even in a batch program? This is where it shines in my eyes. We save
> reports to PDF, then FTP them to another server for distribution. We have
> other reports that get emailed, etc. Sure saves on printing costs. Think
of
> it this way, my set of programs are probably saving my company 20,000
sheets
> of paper a month (assuming no one is printing it out)... and that does
take
> in account for postage and printer costs. It you make full use of it, the
> ROI is very quick.
>
> Sure, Acrobat has more features, but it is mostly a manual process. I
don't
> have to touch the 4,000 reports that are sent. That is done for me with
VERY
> little additional programming.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shannon O'Donnell
>
> $230?  For ONE! utility! That's insane!  You can buy the entire Adobe
> Acrobat software suite, which comes with a free SDK so that you can write
> your own code, AND you have access to all the other tools that are part of
> Adobe, for $249.
>
> I fail to see how it's cheaper to buy Brad's tool (sorry Brad...but you
> could lower the  price of your software) when with just a little bit of
> effort you could roll your own.
>
> Beyond that, there are the Java API's to create PDF files which are
> ridicuosly simple to use.  Joe Pluta and Don Denoncourt wrote a utility
many
> moons ago to demonstrate this and I think Joe may still have it available
on
> his website.
>
> $230 for one utility.  Hmm...maybe I should stop writing free articles
about
> how to build your own software and just start charging people for it
> too....:-)
>
>
> Shannon O'Donnell
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