RE: Quadrant Software's FastFax

You may want to checkout the Broderick package for .pdf's and I think
Linoma has a .pdf generator as well....

Don in DC

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Kevin Mohondro wrote:

> We use their product here quite a bit. No, they have no way of generating a
> text/character based PDF file. Although, I've now requested it several times
> citing the same reasons you gave.
>
> -Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:10 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Quadrant Software's FastFax
>
>
> Using FastFax on the AS/400 to send emails with attached PDFs that FastFax
> creates from AS/400 reports.
>
> Wondering if there is an option to create a character-based PDF file (as
> opposed to the graphic-based now generated) for several reasons:
>
>    * Ability to search the contents of the PDF
>    * Make the PDF much more legible
>    * Cut down on the size of the attachment (presumably)
>
> Perhaps understandably, FastFax's original product generated a graphic of
> the page for faxing.  Later, when they tacked on PDF support, it was
> probably just easy to use the graphic they're already creating.
>
> Anybody know?
>
> tia,
> db
>
>
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