Re: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer

MQ.

On 2/20/07, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1 - Wasn't there just a discussion in the last couple of days on the cost
of Infoprint Designer and having the per seat pricing all wrong?
2 - I agree that Infoprint designer should be part and parcel of WDSC.
Submit a Design Change Request.
There are a lot of things that are two broken apart.  Some parts of i5/os
sound to me like descriptions of mainframe OS and DB software on other
platforms - a bunch of pick and choose rigamarole.  Why is facsimile
Support/400 a separate package and not just part of i5/os?  Isn't that
included in the OS on many other platforms?  Maybe if they included it
with the OS the support would be better.  What other part of the OS do you
call for support on and ALWAYS are put into a call back queue regardless
of the time of day?

Rob Berendt
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Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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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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