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Today marks our one-year anniversary for our LOOP to PDF add-on for Firefox. Our Firefox user base continues to grow with just over 200,000 downloads to date. LOOP to PDF for Firefox combines the award-winning Mozilla’s Firefox web browser with our free online document service making it easier than ever to upload, convert and combine multiple files to PDF.

LOOP for Firefox also provides a revolutionary way to document web pages while browsing the Internet. You can seamlessly document URLs with the click of a button and then download or combine the web pages with other files to a single PDF.

Works with:
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0

We wanted to share an excellent post on the Silverlight Developer’s Journal. The article discusses how “SOA’s next act must accommodate documents, making them not only a key information source, but also a new application context. Documents contain key information that must be accessible across the enterprise. Service oriented architecture (SOA) has been focused on service-enablement of structured and transactional data and processes, documents and document-centric processes have been conspicuously absent from the SOA agenda. With structured data in order, organizations are now beginning to take a closer look at the role of unstructured assets as part of SOA.” Read more

We, along with our customers, agree. When a business automates document creation, it can then integrate documents with all of its other business processes. Most important, the business can capture tangible real-time data around document creation and deliver the information back to the enterprise.

Contact us today for more information about automating document creation for your enterprise.

We have just updated and are pleased to announce that our Salesforce.com customers can now add Opportunity (or Product) Line Items to their Dynamic Document Packages or DDPs.

Our LOOPlus service allows your business to customize, control and manage document creation at the enterprise level for all users within Salesforce.com. You can dynamically customize and package any combination of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files into a single combined file. This combined file can then be delivered through Salesforce.com email or virtually any required delivery option, like electronic signature, a work flow, a document queue or a required approval process.

We offer LOOPlus training every Tuesday and Thursday, on the hour, from 10:00am to 2:00pm PT. Please email us at support@drawloop.com to register for a training session - please identify the date and time slot.

Dun & Bradstreet, the leading provider of information and technology solutions to help businesses reduce credit risk, find profitable customers and manage vendors efficiently, has selected LOOPlus for Salesforce.com to automate document creation for its Canadian operations.

Like many of our enterprise customers, Dun & Bradstreet has specific requirements and work flows around the creation and delivery of documents. Our service will allow Dun & Bradstreet to standardize the document creation process while complying with their requirements and work flows. For example, one requirement is to be able send the created document through EchoSign’s e-signature process. With LOOPlus, this is not a problem. Our service can seamlessly integrate with virtually any service or work flow within Salesforce.com.

Learn more about our services within Salesforce.com.

As some of you may have noticed, when converting from Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to PDF using our LOOP service, some fonts are not supported (i.e. some fonts do not get converted correctly). Fortunately, if the font you are trying to use is a TrueType font, you can solve this problem by embedding the font.

Watch this 15 second demo to see how to embed a TrueType font

Hope that helps! Please contact us at support@drawloop.com with any questions.

Our LOOP and LOOPlus document automation service was recently Recertified for AppExchange. Applications on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange that have earned a “certified” designation have met a higher set of standards. The AppExchange certification process includes extensive testing by Salesforce.com, as well as a security assessment of company policies, application and network infrastructure.

We continue to work with Salesforce.com customers in helping them automate works flow and other business processes around the creation and automation of what we call Dynamic Document Packages or DDPs.

Take a moment to learn why companies like ASCAP, IntraLinks, Price Pfister, 24-Hour Fitness, 1913 and others have leveraged our document automation service within their Salesforce account.