[d@DCC] Adobe & PG Music

[Don Kelly]

Mike,

  Adobe might have found a technical way to disable your use of their
Distiller software (this seems the simplest explanation based on your
description), but I fail see how this is in their interest or technically
feasible.  The last time I checked the Distiller (PDF creation from 3rd
party software) acts as a printer driver.  Being an erstwhile maintainer of
a simple type of printer driver, I can't discern what meta-information in
the Windows API stack they would use to disable the use of the Distiller
from a specific 3rd party program.  Are you able to create PDFs using other
3rd party (non-Adobe, non-Microsoft) software?  IIRC there is functionality
with Distiller to create PDFs using a PostScript (or EPS) source.  Is this
the functionality you're using?

If you're just looking for a printer driver (Print to PDF functionality),
the Open CD (http://www.theopencd.org/) includes PDFCreator (
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm) a nice GPL'd PDF
creation printer driver.  I'd recommend switching to this software to avoid
switch schemes like the one you might be experiencing.

Don Kelly/

On 1/1/06, Mike Lipinski <mikelipinski at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've never had any trouble in printing from my PG music program,
> Band-in-a-Box, to the virtual distiller offered by Adobe, until just
> recently when I received a message saying that this was not
> allowed.  Every
> effort since then to print to PDF has been thwarted, with no further
> comment.  I wonder, since I'm using a pretty early version of the PDF
> program (Adobe Acrobat 4), how this latest interference from Adobe has
> occurred?  It seems that it got downloaded without my permission, through
> those innocent little requests one frequently gets from various programs
> alerting us to a necessary update.  I feel this is an infringement of my
> privacy rights.  Has anyone else experienced anything similar in
> connection
> with Adobe, on any level?
>
>
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Don Kelly
karfai [AT] gmail.com
http://shaolin.dyndns.org/index.html
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