I think that the EULA and Adobe's position on the EULA and use of Reader in such environments speak for themselves. In addition, the "Reader Enablement" features available in Reader 7 and later also provide much greater capabilities for users than the "hack" of local submission ever could. These are the directions that we are taking the Acrobat/Reader family.
If you wish to develop for other viewers - that's certainly your choice as a developer and business person. Leonard On Apr 27, 2007, at 4:18 PM, William Alexander Segraves wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Post all your questions about iText here" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 27 April, 2007 2:24 PM > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Formular Submit from PDF > onlyworkswhileopenedin Browser > > >> My opinion is that the number of users with a version of Reader < 7 >> is so small that I wouldn't invest the engineering effort in a >> product targeted to only those users. >> >> Leonard >> > > Leonard, I had hoped you'd give your response to the compliance > issue I > raised (see below). > > As a specific example, the Knoppix 4.02 live Linux distribution, > has Acrobat > 4 included in it, while later editions drop Acrobat/Adobe Reader > altogether > (IMO, for reasons other than EULA compliance). This distribution, > as well as > several earlier distributions, can be easily remastered to include > a CGI > script to capture form data and merge it with a PDF form. > > As many PDF developers are aware, there are applications for which > Acrobat > and Reader can be employed that are technically feasible, but which > are not > compliant with the EULA. One of these, e.g., using, on a local > network or on > the same computer, a CGI script to capture the form data from a > "submit" > action and merging the form data with a PDF form (AcroForm), thereby > allowing a filled PDF form to be saved locally, appears to be in > violation > of the version 7 (Reader) EULA, while it is not in violation of the > EULA for > previous versions. > > My interest as a developer is ensuring that users are properly > warned that > use of the above-cited capabilities on a local network or on the same > computer with a "localhost" httpd server is not permissible with > Reader 7. > > Certainly, a work-around for this problem, i.e., Reader 7 EULA, is > to not > use Reader at all in a scenario designed to save the form data from > a PDF > form or to save a filled PDF form. I have a working prototype that > doesn't > use Reader, and further, doesn't require a PDF viewer at all, > although a PDF > viewer is nice to have. > > More on this later in another thread, as it is more appropriate for > another > thread. > > Best regards, > -- > Bill Segraves > > > >> On Apr 27, 2007, at 12:29 PM, William Alexander Segraves wrote: > <snip> >>> So, it seems to me it would be compliant with the Reader EULA to >>> use a >>> "localhost" server-side iText-based class for merging FDF/XFDF with >>> the >>> target PDF, presenting the merged PDF to the client browser that >>> "submits" >>> the form data, for any version of Reader from versions 3 through 6, >>> while >>> such use of Reader 7 (and up) would be in violation of the >>> corresponding >>> EULA. >>> >>> Your opinion? >> >> > <snip> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
