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Tombstone Creator Create Investment Banking Tombstones The Easy Way! What is a "Tombstone"? A tombstone is a small graphic (usually shaped like a tombstone or box) that is used to highlight different engagements an investment bank has worked on. Tombstones are usually incorporated into a pitch book that is shown to a potential customer to convince the customer that they are the best option to work on any given deal. What Does Tombstone Creator Do? Tombstone Creator allows a user to enter information about a deal into a web-based screen and generate a tombstone png image that can be re-sized and used in pitch books. Because these tombstones are png images they can also be saved and incorporated into a pitch book at a later date or emailed to colleagues. Why Use Tombstone Creator? Large and small investment banks need to create great looking pitch books when trying to earn business. Having consistent looking tombstones makes it easy to produce multi-tombstone slides. Having tombstones saved as loss-less png files makes it easy to re-size them when laying out a pitch book. Tombstone creator is easy to use and makes crisp, consistent looking tombstones - period. Create Debt & Equity and Merger and Acquisition layouts Produce crisp loss-less png images that are easy to re-size for pitch books Easy to use web interface makes creating tombstones fast and easy Configurable role and product drop down lists Forced line breaks so you can specify the layout or let the software auto-wrap text for you Upload or download logos in png, jpeg, gif, or bmp formats Runs as a headless web application so it can be used as a stand-alone desktop application or on an intranet Screen Overview This screen allows you to enter data in a web page and generate a Debt & Equity tombstone. This screen allows you to enter data in a web page and generate a Merger & Acquisition tombstone. After a user enters data on one of the data entry web pages to generate a tombstone and clicks the generate button, this resulting tombstone web page is shown with the image of the generated tombstone. Resulting tombstone images are produced at 400x500 pixels in size as png images because they offer loss-less compression. To save the image the user can right click on the image and select the "save image as.." menu option in their web browser. Sample Thumbnails of Tombstones Below are a list of fake samples of Debt & Equity and Merger and Acquisition Tombstones that were generated using Tombstone Creator. Drop Down List Configuration In the TombstoneCreator\config\ directory are several configuration files that control the drop down lists for each type of tombstone. Below is a sample of the \TombstoneCreator\config\mna-roles.txt file. This file controls the contents of the Roles drop down list box on the Create Merger & Acquisition Tombstone screen. The double slashes (\\) lets you force a linebreak when the tombstone is created. Senior Co-Manager->Senior Co-Manager Sole Bookrunner->Sole Bookrunner Sole Book-Running Manager->Sole Book-Running\\Manager Sole Placement Agent->Sole Placement Agent Port Number Configuration Tombstone Creator allows you to configure the port that it runs on. There is tombstone.bat file that starts Tombstone Creator and passes a port number into the application. To change the port number, simply edit the tombstone.bat file to change the port number passed into the application on startup. Web Technologies Each web page produced by the application is in standard HTML. There is no CSS or JavaScript. This means that the application works well in most web browsers and even older versions of most web browsers. It has only been tested in Firefox 3.0 and IE 5. PNG Format Each generated tombstone image is produced in .png format. System Requirements Because Tombstone Creator is written in Pharo Smalltalk it runs on most computing platforms including Windows XP and later. Tombstone Creator has only been tested on Windows XP and Windows Vista. A single instance of Tombstone Creator will utilize a single CPU. Tombstone Creator requires between 50 MB and 200 MB of memory. Tombstone Creator when first started requires 50mb of memory. If is is being used very heavily it can grow and consume more memory. As web-based sessions expire it frees unused memory. Sales & Support For sales information or to setup a live online demo please contact us at: