Hello from Gregg C Levine Tom would the Ghostscript product do what you are looking for, in your shop? --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tom Duerbusch > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:59 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [LINUX-390] Next dumb question: Searching for a product > > What is an efficient way of searching to see if there is a product that > can do what you want? Obviously, by name won't do much good. > > I may have a need to produce a PDF file, which we are currently doing > in VSE. However, in this case, we need a "forms flash", or "forms > overlay" on the form also. This is a low volume operation, so I'm not > worried about resources on our IFL. > > Right now, we have one of the big Xerox machines to do the bulk > printing. However, sometimes the departments needs a reprint of a > single form. We would like to send it directly to their printer with > the correct overlay. > > Our Xerox has a solomar box which actually does the overlay for the > Xerox. The input to the Solomar tool kit is a MS Word document. It > would be nice if we could use the same MS Word document for input to > this process. > > But I haven't the foggest idea on how to search for this. Either with > Yast to see what software we have or has already been installed that > might do this type of function, or on the Web for products (chargable or > not), that may do this. > > So, the big question is, how do you search for a Linux based product? > > Thanks > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
