In order to protect customer investments and to allow customers to extend existing PDFlib 8 installations without changing a component in their software architecture, PDFlib 8 licenses are still available after the release of PDFlib 9. The exact conditions of PDFlib 8 availability depend on whether or not the customer has an active support agreement as detailed in the following table:

PDFlib 8 licenses purchased after March 31, 2013 are not eligible for free updates to PDFlib 9 (even with active support). However, they can be updated at the reduced fee (60% of the target price) to the same version 9 product on the same platform (e.g. a PDFlib 8 license can be changed to a PDFlib 9 license at 60% of the list price of PDFlib 9).

All products of the PDFlib family are distributed within a single package which is fully functional, but displays a demo stamp across all pages unless a valid license key is applied. According to your order the license key will activate PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI, or the Personalization Server.

One license covers a single computer running under the selected operating system (platform), regardless of the number of CPUs.

Development licenses for machines which are not used for production purposes and run under the same operating system are free with each purchase.

Redundant (backup) machines do not require a separate license, provided they are never used concurrently with the actual production machines.

Groups of load-balancing servers require a license for every server in the group.

Supplying the name of the target operating system platform is a strict requirement since the license is bound to a specific platform. The license is valid for all supported language bindings (programming languages) on the selected platform.

Details of the commercial PDFlib license can be found in the document General License and Support Conditions which is also contained in the PDFlib distribution. 

Please contact sales@pdflib.com for IBM i5/iSeries and zSeries pricing.

Customers in the Americas, Australia and Japan will be invoiced in US-$, all other regions in Euro.

Like all EU businesses, PDFlib GmbH’s invoicing and VAT handling is governed by EU law:

Customers from non-EU countries will not be charged VAT.

Customers from Germany will be charged 19% VAT (MwSt.).

Customers from all other EU countries must provide their VAT identification number to avoid VAT being added to the invoice.

For more information please see here.

We offer optional support contracts in combination with a new product license, or to renew an existing support contract. Customers with an active support contract will benefit from the following advantages:

technical support with short response times

all minor (maintenance) and major (functional) updates included

early availability of bug fixes

maintenance releases and technical support available until the end of a product's lifetime

additional licenses can be purchased until the end of the lifetime

For a detailed description of support benefits please refer to our General License an Support Conditions or our support pages. The support fee is 18% of the license fee per year.
Support contracts can optionally be renewed automatically every 12 months until the support is expressly terminated by the customer. In order to terminate a support agreement with automatic renewal please inform us one month before the support expires.

Purchase Order: Order the license key directly at PDFlib GmbH. Usually you will receive your invoice and license key within one business day after you send us your purchase order. For IBM i5/iSeries or zSeries licenses please contact sales@pdflib.com