Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:08:38 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 66 Message-ID: <5273667197tim@invalid.org.uk> References: <8e12bd6952.c.n.l.f@virgin.net> <5269d59248steve@revi11.plus.com> <526baffc2bnews*@Torrens.org.uk> <526e2f48fbbbailey@argonet.co.uk> <83bd416e52.graham@durain.demon.co.uk> <8040476e52.graham@durain.demon.co.uk> <9s13ueF8i8U1@mid.individual.net> <3960576e52.dougjwebb@doug.j.webb.btinternet.com> <0d285f6e52.dougjwebb@doug.j.webb.btinternet.com> <526e727ea6see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526e7a41ceron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk> <526ebb0cbdsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526ee73e61ron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk> <526ef043e8see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526f338d22see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526f5c8a81tim@invalid.org.uk> <526f653757see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4492 In article <526f653757see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>, Russell Hafter News wrote: [Snip] > documents that have to be posted I repeat: that is an assumption you make which may not be true. As for using DTP for invoices, I use Prophet which allows a Drawfile to be used as an invoice background which I created once, years ago. They may look DTP'd to recipients as they have graphics but was only done once, a long time ago. Prophet prints them. I doubt many use real DTP to produce individual invoices, unless it's just one every blue moon. [Snip] > If the invoices were only on computer I would need a second monitor, > so that I had one for the accounts program and one to replace the stack > of papers next to the keyboard. On this HD display there is plenty of room to show an invoice on-screen alongside Prophet where I enter its details. Sometimes I cut'n'paste which saves typing. Then the email with invoice attachment is transferred to an external Pluto box called, unsurprisingly, invoices_received. [Snip] > But booking confirmations require to be accompanied by insurance > certificates which are only supplied on paper and must, by law, be > given to the customer. I understand that may be a requirement of the law (really? which one?) or the issuer so you are stuck with it! May be different, I know, but I have had motor and travel insurance certificates sent by email in the past. Mind you, motor are on a national database which the old bill trust more than any self-printed document. All documents are too easy to forge. Travel insurance is optional anyway so only the issuing company is interested in the validity of the policy and they don't need the cert., for that. It's actually a certificate nobody needs really apart from proof of purchase. It would really only be necessary to forward certs if they are printed on security paper of some sort with watermarks and suchlike and in the unlikely event that insured has to present that cert., back to the company in the case of a claim. If they are simply laser-printed onto ordinary stock, customers may as well print them. > Plus, you really cannot get a PDF version of a Pipedream document meant > to be printed on three part NCR paper and expect it to look anything > the way it is supposed to look. In the absence of NCR paper, and equipped with lasers, we can just print as many copies of stuff as we need. Whether or not a document a customer prints is /exactly/ as you see it in pdream probably doesn't matter as long as all the information is there. Unless your NCR paper is pre-printed with other important information I wouldn't worry. -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day" Two G of V, Act i, Sc.3