Question about Adobe pdf reader (activeX)

[Hristos]

Is it legal to use the ActiveX control of Adobe (Adobe pdf reader) in a commercial application?
If somebody knows please answer...

[byo]

Well, to say the least, if Acrobat Reader is free for personal use, then the activex must be as well (I may be wrong here).

If you want to play safe you could distribute your app without the activex, make it detect if the user has Acrobat Reader installed and download it from the official site if not.

I'm not sure you could distribute Acrobat with your application but I've seen may game companies doing that in the past when their manuals were in PDF.

Other than that, I couldn't find anything else about this specific license even in the official site. So I guess, no news is good news.

[Hristos]

Thanks for the reply!
I couldn't find anything in the official site either, so I decided to ask if somebody knows ... I have been thinking about this though and I think that as long as ActiveX object for MMF is a copyright of Clickteam, I can use the Adobe PDF reader since I do not integrate the ocx (or dll) in my application.

[If you want to play safe you could distribute your app without the activex, make it detect if the user has Acrobat Reader installed and download it from the official site if not.]
I think that this is the solution. Thanks!

[RichardC]

Hello

It Is perfectly legal.

I have been using the Reader activex control in commercial software for over two years. I also distribute the reader installer to make sure that users see my software with the latest version and with the features I intended.

Adobe simply require to register with them (free and no hassles)to allow you to distribute the Reader installer with your software. They place no restrictions whatever on programming that uses the activeX. Generally thay promote the use of the pdf standard as freely as possible.

Click here to find out about Using and distributing Adobe Reader

Using forms and other bits of the Reader programming gives MMF the high quality printable document functionality that it otherwise currently lacks.

Rick