Re: Acrobat on server
Re: Acrobat on server
- Subject: Re: Acrobat on server
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:01:37 -0800
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>At 3:34 PM -0800 1/3/01, email@hidden wrote:
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Leonard >>>Actually, any script you would write would not be legal to
deploy as use
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of Acrobat (any portion thereof) on a server is a violation of their End
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User License Agreement.
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>Me>I just looked up my Acrobat End User License Agreement and I did not
find
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anything prohibiting me from installing Acrobat on a Server. What am I
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missing here? Can you send me a copy of the license that forbids this?
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Leonard >>>See page 13 of
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>><http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/devfaq.pdf>
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>>starting with "Unsupported Use of the Software Development Kit"
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First, This is not the End User License Agreement. This is a document
answering questions for developers developing and/or distributing products
for and with Acrobat. This has no bearing on end users.
Second, that section seems to indcate what is not technically feasible
and/or unsupported and/or "contrary to licensing".
But, this passage:
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>>Use of any Acrobat product as a server process accessed by multiple
clients,unless
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>>it is specifically stated in product documentation as designed and
licensed for such
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>>purpose.
Indicates to me that if Distiller is designed to recieve apple events that
initiate automated distilling then it's legal. It is desinged that way. Not
only that, but distiller has a built in feature for watching "hot folders"
and automatically distilling any postScript files that it finds and the
documentation included with distiller makes no mention of this not being
acceptable on a server.
So, I simply do not believe these claims we've been hearing over the past
year or so that it's illegal to use Acrobat or Distiller on a network. And
even if that's what Adobe claims they intended, which I doubt, they'd have
a hell of a time enforcing it with language so unclear.
ES