Hello,
In our company we are using th PDFCreator driver. I found it is better compared to other PDF drivers:
1. It is fast. It takes less time for us to produce drawings.
2. It give true B&W graphics. Just compare its output with the the PDF-XChange result:
I would be happy using it. Hope other user would love it too.
Please add it to the Clarity.
Thank you,
Evgeny.
Evgeny -
Haven't yet had a chance to reach out to them. In some drivers, it's just a matter of knowing what the magic registry key is to control where the PDF file will be put by the PDF driver. But in the case of PDFCreator, they use a COM interface... So it actually wouldn't be possible to do without embedding a part of the PDFCreator software into our application.
-Matt
I can reach out to them to confirm. The challenge is that some of these organizations don't really control all the components of their software - it is built on top of open source software which imposes that requirement on them, so that they don't have a choice either.
I found something here (https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/107883/agpl-what-you-can-do-and-what-you-cant):
The (A)GPL work cannot be distributed alongside the final application even as a separate app (eg, putting them into the same archive or repository), although it's fine to provide instructions on where to find the GPL work and how to use it with your app.
It might help us. The Clarity should not supply the PDFCreator. It can have an instruction how to download and install it on a Clarity Server. And the the Clarity can use it "as is".
Evgeny - we had looked at PDFCreator before, however, they don't have a license which is really compatible with inclusion within Clarity.
See: https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/license
Do you use the free or professional edition?
Thanks,
Matt
Hi Matt.
It' is sad to know that the license doesn't fit our needs. Maybe you can reach an agreement as you did with the PDF-XChange? ;)
We are using a free version.
Here is a PDF driver (https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawPDF) which claims it has a suitable license. As far as I understand the functionality is the same as of the PDFCreator. Unfortunately I have no understanding about licenses. Would you mind to explore it?
Best Regards,
Evgeny.
