EReserves Acrobat PDFWriter distribution?

[Alejandro Garza Gonzalez]

Re: Obtaining permission from Adobe to distribute PDFWriter printer->PDF 
    "printer drivers" to our university staff, for EReserves...

I have gotten no further answers from Adobe themselves, but I have 
recieved mails from other ppl who wanted to do the same and have 
concluded that Adobe requires institutions to buy a copy of Acrobat for 
each user they want to have the PDFWriter software.

I guess what we will end up doing here is have a computer set up with several
common applications teachers use to print the documents they put on Reserves
and convert the files ourselves. This, however, will surely lead to headaches
involving file sizes, font hunting, and version and platform conflicts: 

   "I have a word processor file which i made in my computer 'A', with font
   file 'B', made on this app 'C'..."

We might end up not having one or more of the above "A", "B" and "C". 
Basically we need to have a common suite of Apps and Fonts which will 
reduce headaches. Office 97 might cover most of our needs, but we need 
to find out what other 'rogue' apps are out there. 

As a last resort, that which we can't print to PDF directly we can OCR 
with Capture from a paper version of those documents... 

_ alejandro garza _________________ __ _ _  _    _
  ITESM Centro de Informacion-Biblioteca Monterrey
  agarza at campus.mty.itesm.mx
_ http://www-cib.mty.itesm.mx/ ____ __ _ _  _    _

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Cindi Trainor wrote:

> I had thought that the software that creates PDF, Distiller or Capture,
> depending on if the original is an image or not, was commercial.  Is there
> a smaller version of this available?  Did you get any other answers to
> your post? 
> 
> Thanks.
> Cindi
> --
>  Cindi Trainor                          | cindi at pop.uky.edu | (606)257-6434 
>  Electronic Resources Support Librarian |      404 King Library South     
>  University of Kentucky Libraries       |     Lexington, KY  40506-0039 
> 
> At 12:41 PM 4/22/97 -0700, Alejandro Garza Gonzalez wrote:
> >Has anyone looked into distributing copies of the PDFWriter "printer" 
> >driver to people in faculty to make ready-to-serve PDF documents for 
> >Electronic Reserves? I have just asked Adobe about distribution 
> >specifics, but there has been no response as of yet. Any help would be 
> >appreciated, and posted back to the list...
> >
> >_ alejandro garza _________________ __ _ _  _    _
> >  ITESM Centro de Informacion-Biblioteca Monterrey
> >  agarza at campus.mty.itesm.mx
> >_ http://www-cib.mty.itesm.mx/ ____ __ _ _  _    _