SWING PDF Converter Review:
SWING PDF Converter - The Software That Should Have Been Built Into Notes
By Michele Keizer, CIP
at Northbridge Insurance
Rating: 5 out of 5.
If you are a Domino Designer, then you know how frustrating it can be to pull content out of Notes databases programmatically. Just how do you pull all of those multi-part mime pieces together? When faced with the challenge of having to convert tens of thousands of documents for archival purposes, we were THRILLED to find PDF Converter (and no, they are not paying me to say this). This package is awesome in its simplicity... it takes your documents and renders them with their original form, then produces a PDF. Want to convert 10,000 documents at once? No problem... use a view to find the documents you want, select them, and launch the software. The software allows you to define file names using formulae, which means you can easily interface with other corporate databases. In our case, we defined file names that contained the unique key values, created by, created on, etc. We then created an import of our legacy system to import these files and all of the information it needed was contained in the file name. The documents are now stored safely in PDF format for compliance with regulatory bodies. Throughout our investigation, I found SWING's staff to be very helpful and accomodating. There aren't many products that deliver exactly what is expected, and this one does... and for very little money! If you need to pull content out of your Notes databases, it is absolutely worth taking a look.