Do I have to install acrobat pro at the customer's computer

[ahmady21294082]

Hi,

I made a software which provide exporting the pdf file to html page

Am using Delphi programming language to do that with this code:

{$R *.dfm}
{$TYPEDADDRESS OFF}
var
  objAcroApp: AcroApp;
  objAcroAVDoc: AcroAVDoc;
  objAcroPDDoc: AcroPDDoc;
  objJSO: Variant;
  boResult: Boolean;
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  workPath : string;
begin
  workPath:= 'c:\temp\';
  objAcroApp := CreateOleObject('AcroExch.App');
  objAcroAVDoc := CreateOleObject('AcroExch.AVDoc');
  boResult := objAcroAVDoc.Open(workPath + 'test.pdf', '');
  objAcroPDDoc := objAcroAVDoc.GetPDDoc;
  objJSO := objAcroPDDoc.GetJSObject;
  boResult := objJSO.SaveAs(workPath + 'test.html', 'com.adobe.acrobat.html');
  boResult := objAcroAVDoc.Close(true);
  boResult := objAcroApp.Exit;
  objJSO := Unassigned;
  objAcroPDDoc := Unassigned;
  objAcroAVDoc := Unassigned;
  objAcroApp := Unassigned;
end;

After installing the acrobat DC standard / pro at my pc the application is working fin.

But my question is : when I move the application to the customer's pc,

Do I have to install (the acrobat DC standard / pro) for them?

If I don't want to install (the acrobat DC standard / pro) what I have to do?

Thanks a lot for help.

[lrosenth · Accepted solution]

Yes, since this code uses Acrobat – then Acrobat needs to be installed on all computers that use this code.

If you don’t want to install Acrobat on their machines, then you need to find a completely new method for PDF->HTML.

[ahmady21294082]

lrosenth Thanks for reply.

But do you mean I have to buy Acrobat DC for each customer?

[lrosenth]

Yes, you need to buy a copy for each person that will be running your software. How else did you think it would work? You are programming Acrobat – which means you need Acrobat to run it.

[Test Screen Name]

Would you expect to use things from the Windows SDK if you didn't pay for Windows? Perhaps it will help to think this way: the Acrobat SDK exists for one reason: to sell more copies of Acrobat. It is a programmer tool, but equally important it is a marketing tool.

[try67]

If I don't want to install (the acrobat DC standard / pro) what I have to do?

Develop an application that can do it without the Acrobat API. There are plenty of low- and high-level PDF libraries out there that you can use to get started. Feel free to use any of them for this task, but it's not going to be a simple one...