Generate letter as PDF?

[jason@cufis.com]

All,

is it possible, or is there add-on software anywhere, where we can enable users to "Write" letter and save it as PDF, as opposed to DOC?  This would help us by the allowing the sales reps to generate these letters themselves, rather than having management do it to ensure it is converted to PDF afterwards.

[mcessna]

As far as integration with the Write menu in SalesLogix, this feature is unavailable out-of-the-box. Word 2010 can natively write PDF files, so user's could certainly generate them from DOC files (Word 2007 can save as PDF with a free add-in from Microsoft).

Thanks

Mike

[RJLedger]

As Mike says.. not available as part of SLX OOTB.

I'd suggest you get a PDF "printer driver". This is the quickest/easiest way out of your situation.  A company called BullZip has a "free" one I've used (and still do). Here's a writeup on it: http://rjledger.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/i-need-to-print-pdf/

[jason@cufis.com]

Right now management is using Word 2007 to convert the doc to PDF, and the users do have CutePDF (free PDF print distiller) installed, but as I'm sure you're all aware, sales reps are generally idiots and a simply mistake could be disasterous for us.  (like sending a word DOC file with an image of the owner's signature, hence why we need to send the DOCs as PDF).

[rs1000]

You can copy your letter in a Doc and use Spire Free PDF Converter convert to PDF format. It's Free!

[thyui]

i can give you some advices in converting pdf to some other formats because i always do such a work. you may try adobe firstly but i have ever tried but failed eventually. so i turned to some third party software which contains the function of converting pdf to many other formats . this sdk can do pdf to text conversion in c# ,net. vb, etc. good luck.

[lilycan]

you can use this .net pdf library to save as pdf, this pdf applilication suupports converting and saving all kinds of formats to pdf. maybe it will help you.