PostScope PDF Dispatch Engine   
http://www.driverlab.de

Apart from legally valid documents and contracts, today in the age of Internet, documents can be sent considerably more comfortable, economical and also technically less fault-prone by email than by Fax. Also concerning reproduction quality and processibility, digital documents have many advantages in comparison to the analogous Fax on paper - just think of documents with embedded multicoloured pictures, sharpness of contour lines, the possibility to extract text passages from received documents by copying, or to forward a received document quickly to any arbitrary number of persons, or the effort to maintain the correct sequence of pages while scrolling through the paper salad of a Fax with several tens of pages. Worldwide, the Portable Document Format (PDF) has unchallengedly gained acceptance as the standard format for digital documents as such. Now PostScope PDF Dispatch Engine is a so-called PDF converter, i.e. a software, which turns documents of any arbitrary type, e.g. * MS Office types like *.doc, *.ppt, *.xls * Internet pages like *.htm und *.html * image file types like *.tif, *.bmp, *.jpg * etc., etc ... into PDF. For this purpose, all you have to do is open the desired document (for example a MS Word *.doc) with the corresponding PC-application (in this case MS Word), and formally print it on printer "PostScope PDF Dispatch Engine" - as PostScope is a so-called Virtual Printer Driver, which means: When printing any arbitrary document on PostScope, the output is not going to be a printed sheet of paper, but a PDF file, or PostScript file respectively, which can be saved to hard disk and / or send to the addressee directly by email. Upon request, PostScope optionally personalizes your documents by stamping your individual logo onto these documents.

OctoTools   
http://www.jbmsystems.com

Octotools is multi-function software that does GUI based forms design with automated e-distribution, PCL/PostScript printer output, PDF conversion, and email in an integrated low-cost package Along with legacy output support, OctoTools(tm) is aimed specifically at automating: forms design, electronic distribution, report bursting (drill down), legacy enhancement, and output document management. Coupling a front-end Graphical Users Interface (GUI) with an easy-to-use forms designer, as well as a powerful PDF and print runtime engine, this new software will allow users to complete the following functions: * Eliminate pre-printed and multi-part forms * Automate batch processing and distribution of forms and reports * Reduce printing costs, paper supplies, and associated overhead * Make data universally available electronically through Adobe-supported PDF files * Use a single template for both printing and PDF conversion to ensure an exact match * Seamlessly integrate emailing, Web posting, and archiving with report data * Addition of barcodes Windows print drivers are used to print to any PostScript(tm), PCL printers, low cost digital copiers and production-class printers including Xerox Docutech(tm) and Docuprint(tm). Any data field or position within a text report can be interactively defined as variables for automatic report bursting, Web access, file/directory path names, email addressing, and command line switch settings. OctoTools can receive, report, and text output from simultaneous remote sources by utilizing RPM Remote Print Manager(r) from Brooks Internet Software. OctoTools with RPM provides a universal gateway to receive input from just about any computer platform or environment. The Windows centric architecture eliminates the requirement for intrusive and expensive software on host systems and offloads compute-intensive processing.