Distiller server (was: [pdftex] xpdf)

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:08 AM 2/11/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>On 2002-02-10 21:08:11 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > >Minimum purchase price is $5000.
> >
> > For that price i would buy a simple pc, without monitor, but with 1 gig of
> > mem, put it into a network, put the <<$500 windows distiller on it, 
> make it
> > visible for the whole organization, and spend the rest of the money on 
> some
> > good books
>
>I'd suggest you spend the money on a lawyer instead. Adobe Acrobat's
>license explicitely forbids networked usage of the distiller
>(although the software is perfectly capable of it) unless you
>have an Acrobat license for all computers in the network.

Then I wonder why it's design reflects a service. Don't they have a network 
version (say with a limited number of connected users)? May I mail someone 
a distilled file? If users can use gs or niknak (or whatever this 
alternative is called) only the complicated files
need to be distilled, and then one can walk over to the machine that has it 
installed (which is what we do here).

Hans

PS. I must check it, but don't they offer some service on their web site?
PS. I must also admit that i would not even know how to install such a 
thing on a network -)
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