Formtastic Overview

Design and automatically deliver superior quality electronic forms, bar code labels, and MICR checks using iSeries 400 spool data. Quadrant Software's iSeries 400 engine distributes documents to your choice of printers, fax, email, or post to the Web.

When used with Formatter, Formtastic will reduce document page counts by 50 - 75% to save on printing, mailing, and fax transmission costs.

Formtastic Dual-Screen GUI

On the PC, use the our unique graphical user interface to create form overlays, enhance the appearance of spool data and map the data to any overlay location. View the changes as you scroll through spool pages to validate your design.

Formtastic DesignerPRO

Incorporate iSeries output into document designs using graphics, font styles, and number-to-bar code conversions, while streamlining the management of complex multi-layer and multi-object forms.

Conditioning - Who Gets What and How

Conditioning allows you to control a document's overall appearance and automatically deliver a document to multiple destinations. Also, you can vary the document's appearance and data depending on the final destination.

In this example, we're adding conditioning that will automatically print "Customer Copy" on one copy of the document. We're also adding conditioning which dictates that this copy will be printed automatically.

Conditioning - Unlimited Possibilities!

You can add as much conditioning as you need. Continuing with the example directly above, we're also going to produce a copy of this form with "Accounting Copy" printed on the form. And, we've indicated that this copy should be automatically emailed to the recipient. We could also send the document to multiple recipients or an entire department just as easily.

Conditioning - Logically Control Document Appearance

You can use conditioning to modify a documents appearance as well as print specialized copy or set the delivery method. Conditioning allows you to make major or minor changes to how data appears, where it appears, or if it appears at all depending on the document's final destination.

Conditioning - Automate Document Appearance

In this example, we've used conditioning to create a "For Internal Use Only" watermark. This watermark will automatically print on all copies, one copy, or based on the printer destination.

Conditioning - Take Control of your Data

Formatter also lets you place relative controls on your data. This means you can design a document to appear exactly as you want without any constraints.

Here's an example using the 'Subtotal Area' of your form. Typically, the subtotal is locked into appearing at the absolute bottom of every page. It doesn't matter if the form contains five or fifty detail items.

Using Formatter, you can allow your Subtotal data to float directly under the final detail item. This makes your form easier to read and more professional in appearance.

As you can see in these two images, the subtotal's location appears relative to last detail item.

100% WYSIWIG Print Preview including Conditional Objects

Formtastic's desktop preview shows live data and conditional logic exactly as it will appear on the printed page. Users see spool file text alongside bar codes, graphics, lines, and boxes with perfect WYSIWYG accuracy and without trial-and-error testing. This means that forms processing functions that had to be performed on the iSeries and then printed can now be fully previewed from the PC desktop.

Old Forms vs. Formtastic Forms

Using Formtastic, you eliminate expensive pre-printed forms and high-maintenance printers while enhancing the efficiency, professional appearance, and delivery of your mission-critical documents.