txt2pdf Developed by SANFACE Software ============================= What is txt2pdf? ================ txt2pdf is a very flexible PERL5 program. It allows you to convert all your .TXT files to PDF format, and is flexible enough to run on any platform that supports PERL. Why do I need txt2pdf? ====================== Most of your documents are text files. Usually, your reports from legacy applications, DBs, ERP applications and datawarehouse are textual. txt2pdf allows you to take those old text files and turn them into PDF's using only PERL, which means you don't even need to pass the data through PostScript first. You can run txt2pdf on any system that runs PERL, but it has been tested and is verified to work on many operating systems. For more information on tested operating systems, see http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdftesters.html Here are some of the things that you can achieve with txt2pdf: o You can mark coloured (using PERL regular expressions) phrases in the produced PDF files. o You can mark bold, italic and bold italic phrases in the produced PDF files. o You can add page numbers on every page. o You can add text at the beginning and at the end of every file. o You can add a border to every page. o Internet specific phrases such as http://... ftp://... mailto:... file:... ldap:... news:... will automatically be made into clickable URL's. o You can create a link to a specific age within a PDF document by simply adding http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark o Every word like MIME:... will automatically become a link that will launch the correct application to open that file. o You can use background and foreground layers. o All predefined encodings (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding) supported by the PDF format and the Unix default are supported by txt2pdf. o txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT. Purcashing txt2pdf ================== The fee for every installation of txt2pdf is $99. For more information on licensing, please see http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html#GET Earn yourself a free license ============================ SANFACE Software is going to give you a free licence for every good idea or for every good modify that you can contribute to txt2pdf. Enjoy it! Send SANFACE your suggestions. SANFACE Software mailto:sanface@sanface.com Home: http://www.sanface.com