txt2pdf is an intuitive application that will offer you the possibility to easily convert old txt, spool, or textual reports to PDF format (useful for invoices, forms, reports, sale sheet).

Support for Japanese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Polish, Cyrillic, Thai languages (If you want different languages or different fonts for the supported languages contact us). You can use txt2pdf like a pipe to convert every text or textual output speedly to PDF (e.g. reports from legacy applications, DBs, ERP applications, datawarehouse). It's simple to design background like invoices, orders etc.

Here are some key features of "txt2pdf":

· Support for Japanese fonts (HeiseiMin-W3-90ms-RKSJ-H and HeiseiKakuGo-W5-90ms-RKSJ-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic and Japanese paper formats (JISB4 and JISB5).
· We have set that every ascii chars is just half of a Japanese char. This allows to convert this Japanese text into this pdf!
· Support for Korean font (HYSMyeongJoStd KSCms-UHC-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic.
· We have set that every ascii chars is just half of a Korean char.
· Support for simplified Chinese font (STSong GB-EUC-H) and traditional Chinese font (PMingLiU ETen-B5-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic.
· We have set that every ascii chars is just half of a traditionaland simplified Chinese char. This allows to convert this traditional Chinese text into this pdf!
· Support for Czech, for Greek, Polish, Hebrew, Thai and Cyrillic. (If you want different languages or different fonts for the supported languages contact us).
· Initial support for utf8. At the moment it's possible to encode utf8 into iso8859-1. (if you need other encodings contact us).
· txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT.
· You can mark coloured (using regular expressions) sentences in the produced PDF files.
· You can mark bold, italic and bold italic sentences in the produced PDFfiles.
· You can add page numbers on every page.
· You can add text at the beginning and at the end of every file.
· You can add a border to every page.
· You can use background and foreground layers.
· All predefined encoding (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding) supported by the PDF format and the Unix default are supported by txt2pdf.
· It's possible to run through txt2pdf infinitely (every configured second, sleep feature) on a specific directory (and also its recursive directories) moving the produced PDF to a specific directory, and the original text to a specific directory.
· mailto (mailcc, mailbcc) options: the possibility to send to the specified users (to, cc, bcc) the created PDF like attach. It's possible to specify the title, the body, the SMTP host, the from user (at the moment you can use these features only with the executable versions).
· ftp support: the possibility to put the created PDF in the specified ftp site. It's possible to specify user, password and the final directory.
· EPD 1.0 support. You can use EPD inside the background layer. See this example.
· Internet specific phrases such as http://... ftp://... mailto:...file:... ldap:... news:... , setting linkuse, will automatically be made into clickable URL's.
· You can create a link to a specific age within a PDF document just adding http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
· Every word like MIME:..., setting linkuse, will automatically become a link that launches the correct application to open that file.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Minor bug with Simplified Chinese font
· If you want to use txt2pdf perl distribution and you need utf8 feature you have to install a recent perl version