RE: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer

Folks,

Please excuse the duplicate message. I did not resend this directly myself.
It was the result of a problem on my ISP's mail server.


Regards,

John Taylor 

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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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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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