The FORMagic Family of Electronic Forms Products

FORMagic/400 Forms Overlay Manager
FORMagic/400 PDF File Creator and Forms Manager
FORMagic/Windows Forms Overlay Manager
FORMagic/Host Developer Kit
FlashMagic Non-Volatile Memory Manager

Quick, Easy, and Cost-effective Electronic Forms Overlays
and Related Tools for the AS/400 and Other Platforms!

We have the AS/400's best pricing, by far, for electronic forms and font toolkits.
Few companies need the products costing $10,000 - 20,000!

FORMagic Generates Quick Benefits:

• Reduce Costs: Eliminate expensive pre-printed forms such as checks, invoices, statements, purchase orders, shop orders, freight bills, and letterhead. End delays due to out-of-stock forms, and never again stop to load special forms or dedicate printers to special forms! Eliminate the need to scrap forms made obsolete by business changes.
• Enhance Appearance and Usability: Make plain-paper documents more pleasing and easier to use. Add forms and images to sales and accounting reports, archived documents, memoes, anything printed! Improve the headings and fixed information in documents generated by packaged software. Overlay existing text with new font styles and sizes, graphics, images, and white space. Even ugly, space-consuming, boilerplate and legalese can be replaced with information more useful to your organization.
• Gain Flexibility: React quickly to frequent changes in business processes and externally imposed changes such as area codes and ZIP codes. Print everything "on demand"!
• Save Time: Eliminate manual signatures; use electronic equivalents wherever needed.
• Improve Control: Maintain centralized administration and control of forms.

FORMagic Provides Important Features for Every OS:

• Easy Installation and Upgrade: All of the products listed above, plus all of our AS/400 products, are available in a single download, known as the Keowee Product Suite. No sign up is required for the download! The highly compressed package contains all PC clients, all AS/400 components, and all documentation for speedy installation or upgrade of any combination of products.
• Trial Evaluations: The download provides a fully-functional, 30-60 day trial evaluation for all selected products and features. No sign up is required, but full support is provided if you need help.
• Broad Support for Creating Forms: Create forms with any word processor, text editor, desktop publisher, form maker, or graphics design system compatible with any 32-bit version of Windows. Use any feature provided in your software: multiple fonts with any treatment, lines, symbols, boxes, images, logos, blackouts, whiteouts, shading, barcodes, drawing and paint facilities, and more! Most of our customers use Microsoft Word, but you can use any product; paying for, and learning to use, special software to design forms is not required!
• Efficient Use of Host Resources: Forms are merged with print data in the printer itself, not in the host system. Facilities are provided to download forms when needed, just like fonts. No printing actually occurs when forms are downloaded.
• Quick Implementation: FORMagic operates as an add-on facility. If you can design and print the forms you need, FORMagic can merge them with printed output from almost any application after just a small change. Sometimes, just changing a printer setup string does it all!
• Handle Complex Needs: You have total flexibility to place different forms on different pages, no forms on some pages, even multiple forms on some pages. The ability to place multiple forms on a page radically simplifies applications when forms must be assembled from dynamically determined "component forms". Multiple forms also nicely handle "marginal words" when replacing multi-part pre-printed forms.
• Broad Printer Support: Use any printer fully compatible with HP's PCL 5e, 5c, or above through firmware.
• Redundancy: Our software solution supports all of your compatible printers. You don't have to purchase multiple special printers just to insure you can always print payroll checks and other mission-crtical documents!

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FORMagic/400 Forms Overlay Manager:

• Host Installation: After the Keowee Product Suite is installed on the PC, an integrated FTP client fully automates the installation of our AS/400 Product Menu. If your FTP server is not active, several other means are also supported. From the Product Menu, you can quickly install trial evaluations for any combination of our AS/400 products, or upgrade existing products to the latest versions.
• Host Form Upload: Forms are stored in the AS/400 database, not in the Integrated File System. An automated FTP process is also used to upload forms; other upload methods are also supported if your FTP server is not active.
• Add Forms Quickly: Only a small program change is needed to add electronic forms to any application. Just design your forms, upload them, insert a 12-character merge command wherever you need a form, and make a quick CL change. That's it! Sample programs fully illustrate the changes.
• AutoMerge: This optional feature even eliminates the program change in most cases. A single CL command takes your unchanged spoolfile and does everything automatically. It even supports using different forms on different pages!
• Use Standalone or with FontMagic/400: Use FORMagic/400 by itself, or in conjunction with the FontMagic/400 Font Manager. With both products, you have a complete solution for checks and reports with all popular bar codes! Use barcodes to create efficient turnaround documents, save re-keying, and index archive documents quickly and accurately.
• PCL Commands: The Forms Overlay Manager is fully compatible with direct insertion of PCL commands in your applications. You can use any of the numerous advanced features provided by HP-compatible laser printers that are not normally available to AS/400 applications, including those built around IBM's most expensive AFP/IPDS printers! Our Annual Support Service can even help you identify the proper PCL command to meet many special needs. (Note: AutoMerge is not compatible with direct usage of PCL commands.)
• Highly Efficient: No special post-processing steps are needed. Just make a simple change in your application; there is almost no impact on AS/400 processing resources. (Note: AutoMerge employs a highly-efficient post-processing step.)
• Compatibility Testing: Quickly determine whether your specific environment and printers satisfy the common requirements that almost all sites will meet.
• Security: Fully compatible with OS/400 security mechanisms. For example, securing a check form prevents unauthorized generation of checks.
• Annual Support Program: Our AS/400 products are fully supported. Our goal is to provide everything customers expect from an AS/400 support program plus even more, including superior support and product extras not otherwise available. For instance, Annual Support Program participants purchasing FORMagic/400 or FORMagic/400 PDF receive a permanent, fully-functional, one-form version of the other product at no additional cost.
• Requirements: OS/400 V3R7 and above, including Power Systems; SCS device description for 3812 or similar printer; any printer connection type (including Ethernet, Client Access, twinax emulator, 5250 display with printer port, PC-based 5250 emulator, or router-based emulator); and a fully hardware-compatible PCL laser printer supporting PCL 5e, 5c, or above. See the User's Guide for more detailed information.
• AFP/IPDS is not Required! Printers must be defined to the AS/400 as SCS devices; we do not support IPDS/AFP device descriptions. The many features and great flexibility of the Forms Overlay Manager make this restriction a necessity. However, SCS printers are less expensive and the ones most commonly used; thus, most of our customers consider this "restriction" to be a significant advantage!
• Coming Soon: FlashMagic capabilities will be offered as an optional feature of FORMagic/400 and enable direct host downloading of forms to non-volatile printer flash memory and hard drives.
• Unlimited Usage:Unless you have purchased a version with specific limits, FORMagic/400 provides unlimited use from a single AS/400 processor and includes one copy of the client for generating forms on a single Windows PC. Additional PC copies can be purchased separately if needed. Support is provided for ninety days after purchase; continuous support is available through our Annual Support Plan.
• Other Support: Call if you need support for V2R3 through V3R6, AS/436, or System/36.

FORMagic/400 PDF File Creator and Forms Manager:

• Host Installation: After the Keowee Product Suite is installed on the PC, an integrated FTP client fully automates the installation of our AS/400 Product Menu. If your FTP server is not active, several other means are also supported. From the Product Menu, you can quickly install trial evaluations for any combination of our AS/400 products, or upgrade existing products to the latest versions.
• Host Form Upload: Forms are stored in the AS/400 database, not in the Integrated File System. An automated FTP process is also used to upload forms; other upload methods are also supported if your FTP server is not active.
• Create PDF files with or without forms! The same forms can be used for either FORMagic/400 print applications or FORMagic/400 PDF applications; separate forms design is not required.
• One CL command Does it All: No program changes are needed to handle the most complex requirements for generating a PDF file, with or without forms. Starting with a spool file, you can: specify the IFS folder and filename; place different forms, even multiple forms, on different pages; select the range of spoolfile pages to include (up to 32,000 pages allowed per file); and more.
• Security: Fully compatible with OS/400 security mechanisms. For example, securing a check form prevents its unauthorized usage.
• Annual Support Program: Our AS/400 products are fully supported. Our goal is to provide everything customers expect from an AS/400 support program plus even more, including superior support and product extras not otherwise available. For instance, Annual Support Program participants purchasing FORMagic/400 or FORMagic/400 PDF receive a permanent, fully-functional, one-form version of the other product at no additional cost.
• Requirements: OS/400 V3R7 and above, including Power Systems; and an existing *SCS spoolfile.
• Outbound Email: PDF files are frequently distributed by email. Our support service can help you set up outbound AS/400 email if you don't already have it.
• Coming Soon: Use FontMagic/400 fonts in PDF files (requires FontMagic/400).
• Unlimited Usage:Unless you have purchased a version with specific limits, FORMagic/400 PDF provides unlimited use from a single AS/400 processor and includes one copy of the client for generating forms on a single Windows PC. Additional PC copies can be purchased separately if needed. Support is provided for ninety days after purchase; continuous support is available through our Annual Support Plan.

FORMagic/Windows Forms Overlay Manager:

• Add Forms Quickly: Only a small program change is needed to add electronic forms to any application. Just design your form, download it to the printer (like a font), and place a merge command on each page where a form is needed.
• DOS Applications: Generally, you can use this Windows version for DOS applications operating under Windows. Please call if you need a pure DOS version.
• FORMagic/Windows can support almost any application on any host platform when:
  • It is supplemented with the FORMagic Host Developer Kit (see below), - or -
  • A printer is accessible to both FORMagic/Windows and the host; forms are downloaded from FORMagic/Windows to the printer's ram or non-volatile memory (see FlashMagic below); and PCL merge commands are embedded in the host print applications to control the insertion of forms.
• Requirements: Any 32-bit version of Windows; and a method of placing the necessary form merge command in the print data stream. Note: Windows-based report writers often ignore embedded PCL commands such as the merge command.
• Technical Support: Support is provided for ninety days after purchase. If you need continuous support, please call to discuss an Annual Support Plan.

FORMagic/Host Developer Kit:

• Other Host Systems: The Host Developer Kit (HDK) converts forms generated with the FORMagic/Windows client into a format suitable for distribution and use with operating systems that don't support Windows applications.
• Almost Any Platform: Forms generated in the HDK format can be used with applications residing on almost any host platform, even though no FORMagic software is present. These include Unix, Linux, AIX, HP, Sun, Dec, IBM mainframes, Windows, DOS, Pick, and many others.
• FORMagic/Windows Included: One copy is included with the HDK to generate standard forms, before they are converted to the HDK format. A separate purchase is not required.
• Technical Support: Support is provided for ninety days after purchase. If you need continuous support, please call to discuss an Annual Support Plan.

FlashMagic Non-Volatile Memory Manager:

• Eliminate Form Downloads: If you have flash memory or a hard drive in your printer, FlashMagic can store FORMagic forms permanently and eliminate downloading for each application. An AS/400 version will be available in the future.
• Technical Support: Support is provided for ninety days after purchase. If you need continuous support, please call to discuss an Annual Support Plan.

Need turnkey services or something special? We can help with:

• Forms Design: If you don't have the time, we offer complete forms design services.
• Vertical Market and Corporate Customization: Special versions of FORMagic can be prepared to optimize usage with specific corporate or vertical market software packages.
• Developer Integration: Software developers targeting any OS can use FORMagic components to "forms enable" commercial applications quickly and cost-effectively.
• OEM programs: Special versions suitable for bundling with OEM hardware and software products can be provided.

For more information:

We can provide FORMagic functionality for almost any application on almost any platform! But, applications vary widely. There are frequently multiple options for replacing pre-printed forms in any application. The best option may not be obvious; sometimes, it can only be chosen on a case-by-case basis from a good understanding of the complete application.

If you don't see exactly what you need, please call! We most likely do have what you need; and we will be happy to discuss your application at length, with no obligation, to insure you get the most cost-effective solution possible.

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For more information, contact:

Keowee Systems, Inc.
418 East Waterside Drive
Seneca, SC 29672
Tel: (864) 885-0094
Fax: (864) 885-0880 (call first)
www.keoform.com