Not quite sure where to post this...
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...so don't yell at me :) Anyone out there know what the legality of writing a home-grown PDF reader/writer/editor is? PDF is technically an open file format, does that mean I can code whatever the heck I'd like to without forking over cash to Adobe?
Jeremy Kimball Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. (I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head)
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...so don't yell at me :) Anyone out there know what the legality of writing a home-grown PDF reader/writer/editor is? PDF is technically an open file format, does that mean I can code whatever the heck I'd like to without forking over cash to Adobe?
Jeremy Kimball Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. (I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head)
Adobe PDF Specifications[^]. Doesn't apparently mention any licence arrangements. That, of course, doesn't mean they won't try to stick you with patent royalty demands if you do something they don't like. Like, say, writing a PDF reader that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up. Yes, I know about removing all the plugins, but it then doesn't actually work terribly well. I'm sticking to 5.1. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Adobe PDF Specifications[^]. Doesn't apparently mention any licence arrangements. That, of course, doesn't mean they won't try to stick you with patent royalty demands if you do something they don't like. Like, say, writing a PDF reader that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up. Yes, I know about removing all the plugins, but it then doesn't actually work terribly well. I'm sticking to 5.1. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
Mike Dimmick wrote: that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up no kidding. i dread getting to a site that has documents in PDF format. BW The Biggest Loser
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Adobe PDF Specifications[^]. Doesn't apparently mention any licence arrangements. That, of course, doesn't mean they won't try to stick you with patent royalty demands if you do something they don't like. Like, say, writing a PDF reader that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up. Yes, I know about removing all the plugins, but it then doesn't actually work terribly well. I'm sticking to 5.1. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
Mike Dimmick wrote: Like, say, writing a PDF reader that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up. My thoughts exactly. This, in addition to the fact that it leaves WISPTIS.exe running in the background. :mad: #include "witty_sig.h"
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Mike Dimmick wrote: Like, say, writing a PDF reader that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up. My thoughts exactly. This, in addition to the fact that it leaves WISPTIS.exe running in the background. :mad: #include "witty_sig.h"
Office 2K3 also do it. Run this batch and never see WISPTIS.exe again: rem -- UnRegister MS XP Tablet PC Ink Pen components set sys32=%SystemRoot%\System32 set pfcfink=%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\INK "%sys32%\WispTis.exe" /unregserver "%sys32%\regsvr32.exe" /u "%sys32%\inked.dll" "%sys32%\regsvr32.exe" /u "%pfcfink%/inkobj.dll" "%sys32%\regsvr32.exe" /u "%pfcfink%/inkdiv.dll" "%sys32%\regsvr32.exe" /u "%pfcfink%/tpcps.dll" set pfcfink= set sys32= pause Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
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Adobe PDF Specifications[^]. Doesn't apparently mention any licence arrangements. That, of course, doesn't mean they won't try to stick you with patent royalty demands if you do something they don't like. Like, say, writing a PDF reader that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up. Yes, I know about removing all the plugins, but it then doesn't actually work terribly well. I'm sticking to 5.1. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
Mike Dimmick wrote: Like, say, writing a PDF reader that doesn't require 0.5GB of memory and half an hour to start up. Yes, I know about removing all the plugins, but it then doesn't actually work terribly well. I'm sticking to 5.1. Yep. I normally, just close the site when I see they do stuff with PDF's. Very painful. I only look at them if I'm in dire need of the info within. I hate QuickTime just as much, but only because it now installs that stupid icon in your task bar, that can't be killed of with an uninstall or removing the activex object donloaded by IE. Takes more work than that to kill it.
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