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AcroPDFlib, AxAcroPDFLib commercial use

I am a C # developer and I would like to use these libraries: AcroPDFlib, AxAcroPDFLib

from links to Visual Studio COM. Is it legal to sell software using these libraries? I know that he had to install Adobe Reader on a PC.

Can I sell it without contacting Adobe? It is not easy to find clear search information.

Regards, Baton.

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No, this is not legal. Current license fee:

One-time license fee - $ 5,000

The following libraries are owned by Adobe and you need to obtain any license if you want to sell it for commercial purposes.

http://www.datalogics.com/products/pdfl

The following files are wrappers and there is no need for a wrapper license:

AxInterop.AcroPDFLib.dll

Interop.AcroPDFLib.dll

But if you download both of these files from anywhere on the Internet, it is not practical to sell them to your customers. Source files

AxInterop.AcroPDFLib.dll

Interop.AcroPDFLib.dll

Needed, and then you need a license. Please note using http://wpfpdfviewer.codeplex.com/ to read PDF files. It is not free for commercial as it seems.

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@Piotr Knut is correct, you can distribute these libraries if the user has Reader or Acrobat installed.

When my development team encountered this problem, we contacted our vendor management department for clarification directly from Adobe. The answer from Adobe was

For a complete list of APIs, see the SDK documentation: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2FAPI_References_SectionPage%2FAPI_References%2FAcrobat_API_Reference%2Findex you can use to create them. applications.

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