Re: PDF Viewer?

From: Morpheus (morpheusNOPSAM_at_redpoint.co.za)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:45:57 +0200

Hi Hendrik,
I use an open source app. called PDFCreator wihch is hosted on SourceForge.
Nit to sure what the licensing implications are, but it allows you to
install a PDFPrinter on any windows (and I think Linux) pc which will allow
you to create thjose much needed pdf's. I use it in my office, and have not
deployed it anywhere, but for my purposes it replaces Adobe Acrobat
completely.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Morpheus
PS. Are you in SA, or originaly from sa BTW?

"Hendrik Steyn" <info@xstreamsystems.com> wrote in message
news:40dd9936@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Thanx,
> Adobe Acrobat reader, now called Adobe reader, is available for just about
> every platform you can imagine.
> I will investigate further. I saw the issue on embedding on another
message
> (not from there license), I try to avoid reading license agreements as far
> as possible, because of all the legal jargon. It always takes a whole
> confusing page to state something that could be summarized by most
> programmers in a single sentence.
>
> I will still have a problem printing PDF files in a server-like setup.
Adobe
> reader and the free PDF API is not thread safe.
>
> All the Cross-Platform PDF library companies that I came across, wont give
> you any fixed pricing policy. They want to know, what is your product, how
> much you are selling, what your selling price will be ..... So they can
> calculate just how much they think they can take you for. (I think I am
just
> spoiled by the Delphi developer mindset). I don't want anything for
nothing,
> but I also don't want to be screwed.
>
> Morpheus <morpheusNOPSAM@redpoint.co.za> wrote in message
> news:40dd7b28@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Unless I'm very much mistaken, it is not a case of embedding. I have
very
> > successfully used the Adobe ActiveX component on PC's which have Adboe
> > Acrobat Reader installed, with no problem. There are no licensing issues
> as
> > far as I know, as Abode Acrobat is freely available for download.
> > All I did was to install the component in my Delphi IDE, which creates
the
> > type library and the component wrapper. I then simply used it in my app.
> It
> > is not embedded, it simply calls the ActiveX control on the target PC.
> Only
> > thing I'm not sure of is the availability of Abode Acrobat for the Linux
> > platform, but if it s available, I'm pretty sure that you can do
something
> > sim,ilar using, for example Kylix, which will allow you to use most of
> your
> > code form your Windows app. if you are writing in Dewlphi.
> > Hope this helps.
> > Regards,
> > Morpheus
> >
> > "Hendrik Steyn" <info@xstreamsystems.com> wrote in message
> > news:40dd499c@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > > > What you'll probably have to end up doing is using Acrobat Reader as
> an
> > > > embedded object (I don't know if this can be done in Linux).
> > >
> > > I dont think the Acrobat reader's license agreement allows for
embedding
> > in
> > > ***commercial*** applications.
> > >
> > > Thanx
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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