form printing software

[tomwe]

I need someone with a good memory
I am working on a SCO 5.0.7 system running a FoxPlus legacy app.
They want to be able to print forms.
Years back I knew a company (noew out of buesness) that was running SCO 4.2 that used somthing like this. I believe that the software they ran setup a special printer (like a fax printer) that would define a form (lines,boxes, text, etc. like a preprinted form without the data), then you would send a print job to it with just the data and it would print the form filled out with the data sent to it.

Does anyone know what this software is/was and where I could get my hands on it if it is still available?

Im sorry for my lack of UNIX knowledge, but we only have 2 customers left running UNIX that havn't really done many enhancements for years, am I am getting very rusty in this area.

Tom

 

[jlasman]

Assuming you are using a PCL LaserJet, then you need to create a form overlay that is downloaded to the printer beforehand and then enabled within the application with a very short PCL code. LaserJet 101. ;-)

If you need some help, get in touch.

Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[loops44]

Are you remembering Vsifax? Or maybe UnForm?
If so - both are still available.
With Vsifax you can fax a form to the Unix box and then overlay the data and output it to a laser printer.
With UnForm you create a form with lines/graphics/shading. Then you direct your printing through UnForm. The result is a very high quality laser printed form.
Hope this helps.

- Loops

 

[chomps303]

What you are talking about is a product called "Reform" I can get more info for you if you need it. I believe they were bought by another company and have a newer product doing what you need but under a different name.

I used this product and worked great could do all sorts of really neat things ie: Barcode, Boxes, Shades ... The great thing that it did was it was application independent. It worked between the application and the print spooler.

Brandt

 

[jlasman]

AFAIK, Reform only runs under Windows. So you need a Windows machine connected to print from SCO. It is not a Unix solution.


Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[chomps303]

I used Reform on SCO for years Still works!!

Brandt

 

[tomwe]

brante

Reform sounds like exactly what I need.
Could you send me any info that you have on it.
Will greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
Tom
tom.eby@upos.com