Software Optra Forms, V4.3c

Optra Forms é uma solução da Lexmark para formatação de lotes de documentos com base na impressora e de impressão de formulários electrónicos. O Optra Forms, versão 4.3c é composto por cinco programas fáceis de utilizar (Design, DataMap, Style, Manager, Optra Forms Web Filler / Filler para Windows) e uma memória flash Optra Forms ou opção instalada no disco rígido instalado nas impressoras a laser da Lexmark ou em impressoras de uma das famílias OptraTM. Os formulários, os tipos de letra e todas as informações de formatação são armazenados na impressora. Os dados de anfitrião enviados para a impressora são reformatados, posicionados na página, convertidos em códigos de barras, se necessário, e unidos com o formulário ou página quando este(a) está a ser impresso(a). A combinação da potência de processamento da impressora e do programa potente Optra Forms Merge, armazenado na impressora, cria uma solução elegante e simples para formulários electrónicos ou para lotes de documentos formatados mediante pedido.

Optra Forms Design lets you create new forms or edit existing forms.

--- Create fixed information within a form including text, images and bar codes --- Create variable information within a form including text and bar codes --- Change existing forms --- Use objects such as text, lines, circles or ellipses --- Use subforms for logos or other information that does not change from form to form; subforms can be used in multiple forms --- Import TIFF, GIF, JPEG or BMP images including compressed images --- Select bar codes and concatenate with text --- Select fonts in AFM or PFM formats --- Use color or shades of gray in objects --- Copy formatted text from other applications --- View objects in a Listing View or Graphic View --- Spell check --- Print preview --- Export form as PDF

Optra Forms DataMap lets you remap host data to the variables that you created in Optra Forms Design within a form.

Data will always be in the same location (by row and column) in the ASCII text file. Captured ASCII data files or the DataMap grid can be used to accomplish this task.

Optra Forms Style lets you select printing attributes, define the number of pages within a Style and the activation conditions for each, saves the Style to the computer, and downloads them to the printer's Optra Forms flash or hard disk option.

Optra Forms Style let you select: --- Paper size (A5, B5, A4, US Letter, US Legal, A3, Tabloid, B4, Universal for up to 8.5x14") --- Media Type (Plain paper, Transparency, Labels, Card Stock, Letterhead, Bond, Preprinted, Colored Paper and Envelope). --- Input tray (Default, Upper -Tray 1, Lower- Tray 2, Feeder 1 - Envelope, Feeder 2, Manual Paper, Manual Envelope, Tray 3, Tray 4, Tray 5) --- Output bin (Default, 0 to 10 ) Orientation (Portrait or Landscape) --- Simplex or Duplex (Long Edge or Short Edge) --- Multiple pages in a form with either simplex or duplex Whether any variable data is on a page --- Create fonts (from fonts available to Optra Forms in Type 1 format) that are encoded for Latin 2, 5, 6, Cyrillic or Greek code pages to support variable data from environments that use a unique code page. These Code Pages include 774, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 866, 869 and 878, Windows Latin 1, Roman8, ISO Latin 2, ISO Latin 5 and ISO Latin 6, ISO Latin 9, PC8NOVA, PC8G, Swedish ISO 11, ISO Cyrillic and ISO Greek. --- Create new flash files for a selected group of Styles using a group-compile option. --- Select any number of activation conditions defined for each Style. An activation condition can be a string comparison to data in the ASCII text data stream. All conditions must evaluate to true to select the Style. --- A printout of all styles that are saved in the printer using Print All Styles. This printout includes a thumbnail of the form and other attribute information as well as details of the versions of the DataMaps and subforms.

Optra Forms Style also assembles the resources, erases files and downloads forms to a single printer over TCP/IP, LAN (IPX/SPX, DLC), coax or twinax, parallel or serial connections.

Optra Forms Manager enables administrators to manage and distribute forms to multiple printers over a TCP/IP network. This includes loading new forms and updating existing forms on an Optra Forms printer over a TCP/IP network.

Optra Forms Manager lets you: ---Keep a master copy of all forms on a PC --- Update all printers at same time over TCP/IP after a printer query for its resident Styles and creation dates. Only matching Styles (flash files) with different creation dates are downloaded to the printer over TCP/IP. --- Import a printer IP address txt file (also from MarkVision registry) --- Select the printers to which the Download or Update operations apply. --- Run the update as a batch job --- Create a log file to know successful printer updates --- Create a Style report and save it to a comma separated variable (CSV) file giving better knowledge about the forms in all the printers. The Style report includes the printer listed by their IP address or DNS name and a description, Style names and their versions and the Optra Forms Merge program version in each printer. --- Create PDF files (using Acrobat Distiller) of the data merged with forms after retrieving archive data files from the Optra Forms hard disk. The PDF file can be saved as a softcopy archive file. --- With an Optra Forms hard disk, create a job buffering partition or change its size. After the disk is formatted and partitioned, the Optra Forms Merge program is written to the disk. --- Launch the MarkNet Print Server Web page

To use Optra Forms Manager, the Optra Forms printers must be connected to a TCP/IP network. The LPR protocol is also supported to download forms.

Optra Forms Web Filler lets Optra Forms users enter data into a form using a browser and merge the data into a printer resident form.

The Optra Forms Filler for Windows application lets Optra Forms users view a form, enter data into a form (fill in the blanks in the form) and print (and merge) the form in the printer with the data.