And here I thought "PDF" was an open standard...???!! Hmmm. Steve Bradley
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Maciej Hanski <ma_han2000 at yahoo.de> wrote: > Louis Desjardins wrote: > > > I just checked with Acrobat Pro version 8 and I find the following > option: > > Advanced Options > Activate the Rights for Acrobat Reader (I am > translating > > from French, so it might no be exactly that wording in the English > version). > > What I understand from the dialog that pops up is that this will allow, > from > > within Acrobat Reader, to save a copy of the form once it is filled > > on-screen. > > This is new to Acrobat (since version 8), at the time I looked for an > appriopriate solution there was no other option than Adobe Reader > Extensions (see the wikipedia article). > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_LiveCycle_Reader_Extensions#Acrobat_8_Professional > > > > > I haven't gone through all the doc about Adobe LiveCycle but I > understand > > that this solution is to allow a web-based PDF creation process and is > aimed > > at fairly large group of people. It is not a desktop solution. When you > look > > at the technical specs, you see that it implies servers and databases. > > I am fully aware how this solution works. I did read their docs a few > years ago, the intended target audience would be a "fairly large group > of people", and "servers and databases" would not pose a challenge to > my employer. The problem was the price and lack of other solutions to > enable saving data for Adobe Reader users. > > > There is a cost for Acrobat Pro 8 and I wonder whether this option could > be > > offered as well into Scribus? Since we can already do most of what > Acrobat > > Pro can do, I wonder whether we have also the right to implement such > > Advanced Options in an OSS. > > Quoting the abovementioned wikipedia article: > "The EULA for Adobe Reader now forbids enabling features found in > Acrobat except via files enabled via licensed Adobe Reader Extensions. > This, it has been argued, would prevent third parties reverse > engineering the system and offering alternative software since the end > users would be in a situation of license violation" > > Although I do not like Adobe's monopolist attitude regarding PDF forms, > the risks of implementing such features directly in Scribus are pretty > obvious. > > cheers > Maciej > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080304/c624d2d9/attachment.htm
