RE: Quadrant Software's FastFax

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quadrant FastFax users:  I received a call from Quadrant Support a few
minutes ago.  I was told that several customers have requested the same
thing I have and that the more customers who request it help push the idea
to fruition.  So, please be squeaky-wheel noisy on this one!

Carl, thanks for the info, especially pointing to the free utilities online
when you have your own competing product to sell.  I find that especially
generous.

As for going with another product, whether it's Carl's or Linoma or
whomever's, it's just that what we have is almost there (and it's paid
for!).  Short of the deficiency with PDFs, FastFax has worked very well for
us.  As I mentioned in my original post, FastFax likely was created for
faxing and not for creating PDFs.  The easy add-on was to just tack the
graphic generated for fax and slap it into a PDF.  I wouldn't think that
making it character-based would be all that difficult.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Don
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:39 PM
>
> 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