Lite Driver In Trial Mode

[jeffp]

We have a license to distribute your Lite driver with our application. When a user is working with the Trial version of our application, we put the Lite Driver is trial mode. As you know, in this mode watermarks are printed on the page.

Typically, this is just fine because users will inspect the page and conclude this is due to the trial mode. However, we get a good number of users that don't check the resulting printed PDF. As such, they sometimes get upset that we put watermarks on their documents.

As such, is there any way to display a message before printing with the Lite Driver in Trial mode that would alert the user that it is in Trial Mode and Watermarks will be added to the page.

By default, we set the option to open the Printed PDF to False. This probably adds to the issue above since it isn't immediately displayed showing the water marks.

Thoughts?

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Jeff,

You can display your users any message you want through your main application - whether it will be a pop-up message or a label near the "print" button is up to you but you can display that before calling our drivers to do the conversion to PDF.

As a side note, there is no SDK version of the Lite driver, just the standard

Best,
Stefan

[jeffp]

I'm not sure I follow. I'm talking about when someone goes and prints from Word to the Lite PDF driver. I don't have any control over what I can pop up in this case, do I?. I can in the SDK, but the Lite driver is not controlled by my main application.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Jeff,

Apologies -seems I misunderstood the initial question. No - there is no way for you to make the stand alone Lite driver give any such warning. One thing that came to my mind is to change the name of the Lite driver to e.g.
"PDF XChange 4.0 Lite Unlicensed" as you will have that control at install time and then rename it again (and license it properly) when your users enter the license for your own product.

Best
Stefan