Re: PDF files on company Intranet?

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000, Michael Sowinski <msowinski[_at_]dpra.com> wrote:
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> I would really appreciate a word of advice. Several newsletters that
> my company subscribes to have begun to offer their periodicals via
> electronic delivery services, such as PDF. If my company, which
> includes 8 offices nationwide and one in Canada, stores those PDF
> files on our company Intranet site where they could be accessed by
> all of our offices, would we be infringing?

Acrobat 4.06 Reader is available for anyone to download. You can get it at http://www.adobe.com/ for free and acknowledgement of their license agreement. Acrobat Writer 4.06 cost anywhere from $99 for an upgrade to $279 for a new program. Adobe gives the Reader away so anyone can read what is created by their Writer which they charge for, which also includes their Acrobat Distiller, which can generate complicated pages with graphics etc. They also charge for Photoshop, PageMaker, Illustrator, In-Design and a lot of other products that can be view at http://www.adobe.com/store/products/main.html. It would be poor marketing to not give away the reader that allows the viewing of all the created works by their other products. So the non-lawyer, layman, answer is you could store any PDF document anywhere, but to create them you need a licensed copy of the Writer.

Greg Erkins
<gerkins[_at_]gci.net> Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 14:40:12 GMT