Drawloop Blog

We are pleased to announce that our Firefox users have pushed us into the top 15% of the most popular add-ons for our category. We have had over 3,000 downloads this week alone! Our document volume this week with LOOP PDF for Firefox is over 12,000 conversions. Stay tuned for some exciting new features on LOOP PDF in May! We will be announcing some features that will significantly extend the business – customer value of LOOP.

Thank you again to all of our Firefox users!

Tremendous. Free, easy and saved me when having to combine a multiple page PDF. Thank you SO much.

If you don’t use Firefox, you can also check out LOOP PDF as a Google Gadget or LOOP PDF on LOOP Apps.

We wanted to share a recent review and use case from one of our LOOPlus customers, Dawson Cole Fine Art, on Salesforce.com. We continue to expand our salesforce.com users while refining our document automation services. If you use Salesforce.com, we encourage you to install our free trial and begin automating document creation for your entire team.

Excellent Option for Document Creation with Salesforce.com 04/22/09 by Dawson Cole Fine Art
This is a great app if you need to create documents! Great functionality and great support team. Huge time buster!

Customer Success

Need:
Dawson Cole Fine Art needed to be able to email or print a custom data sheet on a particular sculpture or painting. This data sheet includes images, pricing and details about a particular piece. The manual steps involved in creating this data sheet made it difficult to quickly respond to existing and new customers.

Solution: LOOPlus
With the click of a button, a customized letter package (cover letter, data sheet and other optional elements) is created for the new prospective or existing customer. The automated process allows Dawson Cole Fine Art to quickly respond to the specific needs of its customers.

Learn more about our LOOP Document Services on Salesforce.com

We wanted to highlight a new DDP delivery option, “Download”, in our latest Salesforce.com release. With the Download delivery option, you can now create custom Download delivery options that include:

1) Deliver DDP as a one combined PDF for download

2) Deliver each separate merged file as a PDF for download

3) Deliver original merged files for download (.doc, .xls, and/or .ppt)

4) Deliver originals and PDFs (#2 and #3 above)

Watch a quick 30 second video on how to add this new delivery option to your DDPs in Salesforce.com – watch now.

Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 8.  This version of their popular web browser comes with numerous new features and enhancements over its older brethren.  One of the big enhancements the IE team at Microsoft has made is increased performance across the board, allowing pages to render faster and scripts on the page to run faster and more accurately.  More information about the new browser’s features can be found in its wikipedia article.

One of the most exciting changes from my point of view as a developer is the much closer adherence to web standards.  This allows more rapid development and less work dealing with differences between browsers.  This benefit is passed on to the end user through nicer interfaces with less code clutter, which means faster downloading of web pages and faster response time while on the page.

We strongly recommend upgrading to a browser that closely follows web standards.

If you’re already using the latest version of Firefox, Safari, Opera or Chrome, that’s great!  You’re all set.

If you’re using a browser from the Internet Explorer family, we suggest heading over to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web page and upgrading to IE8.