Re: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Regards,
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> John Taylor
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