At 01:20 PM 1/11/2002 -0500, Matt Pobursky wrote: >However, you can request a demo CD of Protel 99SE from Altium and >that can be used to view your files. It will be a limited >function version (I'm not sure of the limitations though).
It can be used, but only for 30 days. This is less than satisfactory. It is *not*, however, limited in function, it is full-function. It's a product demo, not a viewer. For PCB, I recommend generating the gerber and suggesting that the customer use one of the many free gerber viewers. They can even use CAMtastic, and you could send them a CAMtastic file instead of gerbers. A good viewer would be better though, especially if it allowed examination of net attributes. Protel should make the demo default to a viewer after 30 days, thus serving multiple purposes. In fact, I'd recommend that the demo install as a viewer; at any time the user could convert it to full-function, which would then expire in 30 days. This would allow a company to use it as a demo for quite some time and *then* decide to seriously consider purchase, with no complications. It is sufficient to restrict certain kinds of file writing and output, there is no need to make the expired demo *useless*. For schematic, yes, Acrobat. I got a copy of pdfwriter with my digital camera.... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
