Re: Forms processing software for i5 and Windows

William,
Appreciate the info. My use of the Adobe products has been drag & click (interactive). I'm not a vb or .net pgmr but was only proposing it might be doable. But I had to learn the Adobe Creator enough to teach the user - actually found a web video showing how to merge pdf's.

Jim Franz



----- Original Message ----- From: "William Luke" <william.luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:15 AM
Subject: RE: Forms processing software for i5 and Windows

Jim,

You may want to review the EULA for Adobe Creator, Adobe has a lot of
desktop software that developers have learned they can call from another
program and perform functions like you mentioned. However, Adobe also has
server based products like PDF Generator which includes Assembler to convert
Office Doc, CAD, TIFF etc into a PDF and assemble them. PDF G cost $40 K, so
you can see that Adobe might not like it when someone uses a personal
desktop product to avoid buying a server based solution.

The server based products are considerably more expensive. However the
Desktop product EULA in most cases forbids you from calling the program from
another program, so you could be in violation of the EULA. Adobe included a
program for years in the Acrobat Pro that would convert docs to PDF without
opening Acrobat and doing it manually. This is a clear violation of the
Acrobat Pro EULA and Adobe frowns on this, I have seen them take legal
action against companies for this type of thing.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

William Luke
Consultant, 239-214-2063



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