Cerenade - Designer

Gone are the days of static, one-dimensional paper forms. Now, with Cerenade, designers can create electronic forms with more functionality and intelligence, including the ability to calculate numbers and perform conditional logic functions. Beyond that, this feature-rich form creation software stands out from the competition by offering simplicity, flexibility and ease of use. Because of the complexity in creating intelligent forms, Forms Designers often need a background in programming and products often require training. However, Cerenade's familiar Windows environment and intuitive user interface enables users to create superior electronic forms without any programming knowledge and with limited or no training required. Cerenade is the user-friendly solution to designing electronic forms.

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Visual eForms Designer (ZOOM)

What are the advantages of Cerenade's Visual eForms Designer?

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FAR vs. PDF (ZOOM)

It creates exact electronic replicas of your paper forms
• Visual eForms Designer creates...: - WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) forms enabling easy recognition by end users when converting to electronic forms.

It's a superior design tool
• Visual eForms Designer offers...: - An intuitive user interface which enables fast and easy adoption of the technology.; - An open architecture that allows for backend programming with commonly used programming tools.

Outstanding conversion capabilities
• Visual eForms Designer provides...: - Seamless conversion of forms designed in any format (FormFlow, Adobe PDF, OmniForm, etc.) to its own format.; - Fast conversion of forms created with other tools (PerForm Pro, FormFlow Classic, OmniForm, PDF, MS Word, or WordPerfect) to Cerenade's .far format.; - Accurate conversion of one to several thousand forms, while maintaining most form properties (field positions, attributes, calculations, etc.).

Powerful, flexible output
• Visual eForms Designer supports...: - Integrating data from a variety of sources, such as ERP systems, to create professional-looking output using Visual eMerge; - Printer independence, thereby providing the flexibility of printing forms to any output device and at any resolution within the enterprise, without the need for custom print drivers.

What features does Visual eForms Designer provide?

Graphics development tool
• Visual eForms Designer is component-based, developed in visual C++, and supports most popular graphic formats, including PCX, TIFF,
WMF, PostScript, BMP, and JPEG.
• Allows creation of forms with objects such as boxes, circles, tables, drop lists, barcode, digital signature, mask, check boxes, text and data fields.
• Enables user-defined grids with the precise placement of graphics and text.
• Additional functionality includes:: - Full font support; - Rotated text; - Variable leading; - Shrink-to-fit; - Auto Addendum; - Spell check; - Embedded logos

Extensive fill-in capability
• Automatically perform math calculations: arithmetic, date/time, and conditional logic (if/then/else)
• Set other fields' attributes based on information in current field
• Extensive validation rules and error checking, including customizable help text
• Choice lists for automatic data entry
• Expandable, fillable fields (Field scrolls to accommodate the amount of text entered in the field; when the form is printed, excess data is printed to addendum pages that are automatically generated)

Accessible forms
• Inherent support for assistive technology products, including the newest versions of screen readers (Freedom Scientific, GW Micro).
• Forms created and imported to the Designer are automatically accessible. No additional programming or editing of a form is required.
• Compliant with Sections 1194.21, 1194.22, 1194.31 and 1194.41 of Section 508 of American With Disabilities Act. Read more...

Other design features
• Support for Entrust, Verisign, NT, and Hand signatures
• One dimensional and 2D barcode creation, including PDF417
• Database connectivity via Microsoft's Data Access Objects (DAO) and support of most databases, including dbase, FoxPro, Access, SQL Server, and Oracle

What are the system requirements?

• IBM PC or compatible with an 80486/Pentium® processor
• A minimum of 16MB of RAM
• Hard disk with 40MB free space
• Mouse or other pointing device
• All 32-bit MS-Windows including Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, NT, or XP
• All MS-Windows printers supported

Client Support Center (Customer Service/Technical Support/Help Desk)
Support for all Cerenade products is available: Monday through Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Phone Support: 310-645-0598 Email support: support@cerenade.com

Sales
Behdad Payami, Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Phone: 1-800-617-4202 (310-645-0598) ext. 7143
Email: sales@cerenade.com