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From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: TRANSCRIPT licence
Keywords: postscript adobe transcript ditroff dwb
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Date: 19 Dec 90 13:08:50 GMT
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> Can anyone out there describe the current position on the TRANSCRIPT
> software package from Adobe Systems?
> 
> I had heard that it was freely available and I have seen it on FTP sites,
> but the documentation seems to imply that it is a "normal" product requiring
> a site licence.
> 
> Any comments ??

Well...we've been talking with Adobe on getting Transcript directly from
them.  If it's "free available", then someone is violating a license
agreement. 

For the source to Transcript, you need a license from Adobe.  A single
seat costs $1795; a site-wide license costs $2895.  You have to fill out
a license form from Adobe and mail it back to them -- with payment.

One hitch: the source comes on 1/2" mag tape ONLY -- no cartridge, no
floppies, no alternatives.

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)

      "Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck
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