PDFingMailer News Letter #4 (26th September 2000)
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It has been a long time since our Holidays and, I am sorry to say, it
has been a long time since we sent a news letter to our customers!

PDFingMailer has now achieved sales in four continents. Our first sale
in South America only happened last week, thank you Edgardo! We are
now enjoying some of the problems of success, in particular more users
means that more bugs appear! Please see the bug-list below.

More users also means more suggestions for improvements to
the product! We are including these ideas in our product.
Thanks to everybody who has responded! We are often suprised
and sometimes inspired by the tasks on which PDFingMailer is
employed. 

I would also like to thank those customers who have mentioned our
product on the Web. This is the most valuable advertising of all!


Latest Version
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Our latest version (V1.2.0.7.1) is available for download at:

http://www.pdfing.com/Downloads.html

The AS400 utilities have now been updated to allow for the new tags.

We had hoped to include an improved configuration interface by now, but we
have decided to combine this with making different language versions 
easier to build. We should be uploading the first version of the new
configuration program in mid October.

The beta version (V1.2.0.8b) is also available at:

http://www.pdfing.com/Beta.html

This version includes a re-write of SCS to PDF conversion that can
deal with different font sizes in the same document. The re-write has
made PDF creation even faster. In addition SCS to RTF file support is
now included. If you use PDFingMailer to convert (un-transformed)
SCS spooled-files that are at all "complicated", we strongly suggest
that you check these spooled-files using the beta version,
as font-size and positioning may be (slightly) changed.


Bug-List
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1) In cases where numerous small spooled-files were sent from
the AS400 quickly, PDFingMailer sometimes reported errors in
creating a "KEEP" directory, where no error had occurred. This bug
was reported and fixed this month!

2) In some National Languages the @ (at-sign) character is
mis-translated, PDFingMailer should be able to correct for this,
but did not, due to another problem. This bug was reported and
fixed this week!

3) Un-transformed SCS spooled-files with variable font-sizes caused
PDFingMailer to produce PDF files that look nothing like the original
document! This required a re-write of SCS to PDF conversion that is
still in beta testing.

4) Sorry about the above!

Conclusion
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Thanks to all our customers. We promise that the next news letter
will not take so long to appear.


Regards

David Fowle & Jane Hearn