ProductWriter Release 19.00 – PC Specification

 

 

 

 

Hardware

 

 

 

Component

Minimum configuration recommended:

If purchasing new hardware, we recommend at least:

 

 

 

Processor

PentiumII  350Mhz

 

Any modern Pentium processor

 

RAM

64Mb

 

1Gb

Hard Disk Drive

1Gb available space on hard drive for installation of DB2 and ProductWriter software

40Gb

CD Rom

CD-ROM drive

 

CD/DVD-ROM drive

 

Monitor

SVGA capable graphics card and monitor (1024x768 pixels)

 

SVGA capable graphics card and monitor (1024x768 pixels)

 

Other

 

Ensure the PC has a mouse, keyboard and floppy disk drive.

 

 

 

As recommended, plus Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista Business Edition (see Software section)

 

 

 

 

 

Printing

 

 

 

To print from ProductWriter, any printer that has a Windows printer driver capable of printing graphics is suitable. However, some lower specification printers may not support all of the features used in ProductWriter forms.

 

 

 

 

 

Backup

 

 

 

This might include a tape drive and suitable software. This is for recovery purposes should your ProductWriter PC fail or the ProductWriter data become corrupted.

 

 

 

 

 

Software

 

 

 

 

Software

Versions

 

 

Operating System

 

 

ProductWriter will run on the following operating systems:

 

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows Vista Business Edition

 

 

Database

 

 

 

ProductWriter requires one of the following databases:

 

  • IBM DB2 Universal Database Personal Edition 7.2
  • IBM DB2 Universal Database Personal Edition 8.2
  • IBM DB2 Express-C Edition 9.1

  

 

Web Browser

 

 

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2 or higher.  This is required to view Help pages in ProductWriter and to download data dictionaries from the Polaris web site.

 

 

Applications

 

 

 

 

To support the import/export of various files to ProductWriter, we recommend the following software:

 

Word Processor  :  Microsoft Word

 

Spreadsheet      :  Microsoft Excel

 

To support the viewing of PDF forms, we recommend the following free software:

 

Adobe Reader 6.0