[Question] Pastel,Win7 and email

[Martinco]

I guess for Neville,

I have changed two of my workstations to Win 7 and downloaded Windows Live as an email program. I now cannot email invoices to customers.
Can I get Pastel to use this as the default email and if so....how and if not, how do I fix the problem ?

[Neville Bailey]

Hi Martin,

Pastel will interface with Outlook Express, Outlook or Windows Live Mail.

However, if you are running Windows 7 or Vista, you need to be running Pastel Partner/Xpress 2009 Build 10.2.4 or later, in order for get it to interface with one of the above email applications.

What version of Pastel are you running?

[Martinco]

Running v 9.3.4

So am I screwed ?

[Neville Bailey]

Running v 9.3.4

So am I screwed ?

I'm afraid so, if you want to interface seamlessly with your email system on Windows 7.

Your alternatives are:

• Go back to Windows XP
• Upgrade to the latest version of Pastel
• Print your invoices as PDF files straight out of Pastel and then attach them to your emails in Windows Live Mail

Sorry...

[Martinco]

[*]Print your invoices as PDF files straight out of Pastel and then attach them to your emails in Windows Live Mail[/LIST]Sorry...

I.E. Print the PDF to a file on say desktop and attach to Win Live ?

[Neville Bailey]

I.E. Print the PDF to a file on say desktop and attach to Win Live ?

Zactly!

[Martinco]

Further question,

I cannot find the option to print an invoice to a .pdf file

[Neville Bailey]

OK, if you first update the invoice, you can reprint it from View...Customers...Print Document...Tax Invoice, and then select the PDF option in the "Print To" field.

If you have not yet updated the invoice, you can print it as a PDF file after installing one of the many free PDF Writers available on the net, such as CutePDF, PDFill, etc. These utilities show up as a printer driver in Windows, which you can select from within Pastel as the destination printer.

[Martinco]

Neville, You are a star !!!!

Works like a bomb and saved me 4000 for the upgrade ! ( But I am sure Pastel will work on something else ! )
For the non believers out there...........this demonstrates how easy it is to get assistance from Neville .

[Cathy Duncan]

Neville, You are a star !!!!

Works like a bomb and saved me 4000 for the upgrade ! ( But I am sure Pastel will work on something else ! )
For the non believers out there...........this demonstrates how easy it is to get assistance from Neville .

Yeah truly dude, I am an early admirer of Neville, as I always found his provided information fruitful.

[greghsa]

Hi Cathy Duncan , do they have Pastel in Canada?

[Cathy Duncan]

Hi Cathy Duncan , do they have Pastel in Canada?

Yeah, you can have better idea of the best pastels in Canada by searching 'The Best of Canadian Pastels' on amazon. It'll give you better understanding of the best ones.

[greghsa]

Yeah, you can have better idea of the best pastels in Canada by searching 'The Best of Canadian Pastels' on amazon. It'll give you better understanding of the best ones.

I think Neville is one of the best 'South African Pastels'. He is an artist LOL

[Cathy Duncan]

I think Neville is one of the best 'South African Pastels'. He is an artist LOL

Well, he might be, but we are talking about Canadians not South Africans.

[Spinaker]

I am running Pastel v 10.2.4 ( 5 user lic) on a small network (2 workstations) with the Pastel09 directory on a NAS-drive, it used to work fine until i setup RDP to be able to work from home. Now as soon as I want to open a company on a second workstation it gives me a Status 116 message and closes Pastel.

I spent around 3 hours on the phone with Pastel, but no-one has any idea why it does that.

Any ideas??

Regards

Andre Spin