Hello, our application has the following requirements and I think one of your products or perhaps a combination of your products will accomplish this.
The end user is responsible for creating MS Word documents which are templates for contracts. The user is already trained in creating the Merge Fields using a custom DocVariable to identify what belongs in a field.
We take that document, open it and insert the correct field values and save out a “merged” Word document. Then we convert that Word document to a corporate standard PDF format. This PDF document is then available to the end user.
This approach lets the user maintain their current skills and take advantage of the many many Word documents they have already created.
We do not like the apporaches and third party softwares we are using - including their complexity, technologies and price.
As a reminder we do this:
- Open Word Document 2. “Merge” fields with correct values
- Save New Word Document w/values
- Convert to PFD
- Deliver to User
Do you have products which can deliver this function?
Many regrets for the rush, but we will be making a decision on software and approach at the Close of Business tomorrow, Thursday, August 4th MST.
Thank you in advance.
Please include the EXACT products and their price - we will get this pricing apporved (to the penny) so please be as accurate as possible. Insofar as scale, please expect a small scale of less than 100 users at a single time, interacting with only one document each with less than 100 fields per document. THe size of the documents vary, but they are almost only text and their size is typically less than 1 MB. Using the .NET framework is desired.
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Please include any information on how this would be accomplished (your prefered way) if the documents did not exist and were to be created from scratch using any means we employ.