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Jim,

I understand I was just trying to let the user community know that many desk
top products have restricted use defined in their EULA. For instance
Acrobat Pro for years had an API in it that could be called by a program and
covert office docs to PDF. Many people in the developer community discovered
this and used it to avoid paying thousands of dollars for a server based PDF
converter. There are two major problems with this. (1) when they experience
a problem in production and call support they get caught because they
explain what they are doing to the vendor (2) Technically, the use of the
product in this way is not supported, so in this case Adobe would tell them
they are on their own (provide no help and no fix).

I actually know of a large bank that did this, they used it for more than a
year without problems. Then called in for help and ended up in a compliance
audit that cost them a lot of money.

Best Regards,

William Luke
Consultant, 239-214-2063


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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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