RE: Creating PDF

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:57 05/06/2003, Walden wrote:
> >You can buy the entire Adobe Acrobat software suite, which
> >comes with a free SDK so that you can write your own code,
> >AND you have access to all the other tools that are part of
> >Adobe, for $249.
>
> Careful. IANAL[1], but read section 2.2 of the Adobe license carefully. You
> are permitted to use the software from a remote computer "provided the total
> number of users that access or Use the Software...does not exceed the
> Permitted Number." And also, "No other network use is permitted...by any
> user not licensed to use this copy of the Software..."
>
> So, before you have a server sitting somewhere spinning up PDFs using the
> $249 copy of Acrobat I'd have your legal department look at this license
> agreement.
>
> -Walden
>
> 1 - I Am Not A Lawyer


I think point 1 might be good, though I'm not sure. However, and a little 
more to the point, I have noticed that there are a plethora of pdf creation 
utilities available in Linux, including one for php, which should be pretty 
easy to interface to. The company I work for uses Joe's pdf product, and 
it's great, but has anyone used a Linux box for this?  After all, you can 
buy a maintenance subscription from RedHat for about US$50/yr (not required 
btw), the install is free, and it'll run just dandy on a 500MHZ intel 
machine (that part I know for a fact).


Pete Hall
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