Questions and Answers

1. Q - What is DocumentBurster?

A - DocumentBurster is a one-click batch PDF report bursting software. The generated documents can be delivered on a variety of destinations like email, ftp, fax, archive and many more.

2. Q - What Are the Key Benefits of DocumentBurster?

A - Whether sending daily confirmations, monthly statements, or other critical reports or correspondence, DocumentBurster reduces costs and saves time by eliminating the labor-intensive process of hand-mailing or e-mailing each document separately.

3. Q - What Are Its Business Applications?

A - DocumentBurster can be used in virtually any business and by any department that sends bulk individualized communications-whether to customers, employees, vendors or prospects.

Below is a sampling of the most popular uses for DocumentBurster.

Manufacturing/Shipping and Fulfillment

• Order confirmations
• Shipping memos

Accounting and Finance

• Invoices
• Account statements
• Contracts
• Purchasing orders
• Dunning letters
• Internal budget status reports

Human Resources Departments

• Benefits statements
• Open enrolment forms

Sales and Marketing

• Targeted sales letters
• Promotional mailings
• Thank you notes
• Re-order solicitations
• Internal lead status reports
• Regional sales reports

Professional Services

• Billing statements
• Appointment confirmations
• Reminders to schedule appointment

Financial Service Providers

• Monthly, quarterly, year-end statements
• Trade confirmations
• Portfolio management and reviews

4. Q - How Does DocumentBurster Work?

A - DocumentBurster runs through a series of two steps to distribute targeted reports to e-mails and ftp destinations. It:
a) “Explodes” or splits, the master PDF report into individual PDF attachments based on hidden e-mail tags in the original document; and

b) Distributes each individual PDF report either via e-mail or FTP to the designated recipients.

5. Q - How Do I “Tag” a Report?

A - Put inside your PDF report burst tokens -e.g. {john.george@yahoo.com}. If you want to send to john.george@yahoo.com pages 1, 3 and 11 than these pages should contain the token {john.george@yahoo.com}.
FTP burst tokens looks like {ftp://john.george:john123@ftp.john.com/invoice_pdfs/} - More info at FTP url format documentation.

You can use the white color for the burst tokens so it will be invisible for your clients.

6. Q - Can I "schedule" the bursting and delivery of a report?

A - YES. DocumentBurster is built using the powerful java scheduler Quartz. In config/quartz-jobs.xml you can customize how you want to define your scheduling. By default the reports are scheduled to burst immediately. For a different behavior please read Quartz Documentation.

7. Q - Can I use DocumentBurster in an automated batch kind of environment?

A - YES. It is very easy to call DocumentBurster from command line in order to automate the process from other scripts. This is how it was designed. Give it a try.

8. Q - What Are the System Requirements for DocumentBurster?

A - DocumentBurster needs Java installed.
Most systems already have Java installed so you need only to run DocumentBurster and see if it is working. Latest version of Java is recommended but it should work with any version >=1.5. Run java -version on command line to see which java you have installed.

If needed you can download Java from here

9. Q - Can I use DocumentBurster with Web mail servers like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc?

A - YES.

10. Q - Can I use DocumentBurster with SSL or TLS enabled mail servers?

A - YES.

11. Q - What is the price of DocumentBurster?

A - DocumentBurster can be used freely under the terms of the GPL license.