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General

• What Is HTMLDOC?
• Is there a mailing list for HTMLDOC?
• Is there a newsgroup for HTMLDOC?
• Do I have to pay to use HTMLDOC?
• What do I get when I purchase HTMLDOC Basic?
• Can I evaluate HTMLDOC before I buy it?
• What is your refund policy?
• Do I have to pay Adobe to generate PDF files?
• Do I need to buy Adobe Acrobat to use HTMLDOC?
• Why just HTML?
• How do I enter a license from the command-line?

Licensing/Legal Questions

• I thought that HTMLDOC was open source software?!?
• Can I license HTMLDOC under different terms?
• Is it possible to embed HTMLDOC in my own product?
• Does HTMLDOC use LZW compression?
  

  No.

  In the distance past (PDF 1.1, Acrobat 2.x), LZW was the only supported compression format. However, Flate (aka ZIP aka LZ77) compression has been available since PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3.0), and is the only type of lossless compression (for text and small images) supported by HTMLDOC.

  HTMLDOC also uses JPEG compression when writing larger images.

  At no time does HTMLDOC try to compress data using the (inferior) LZW algorithm.

• Do I need an import/export license to use HTMLDOC outside the United States?

Download Questions

• What platforms are supported?
• Where can I download the source code?
• Where can I download binaries?

Functionality Questions

• What level of HTML is supported?
• Are stylesheets supported?
• How fast is HTMLDOC?
• Does HTMLDOC support remote documents/URLs?
• Does HTMLDOC support secure (encrypted) URLs?
• Can HTMLDOC generate encrypted PDF files?
• Can HTMLDOC generate 128-bit encrypted PDF files like Acrobat 5.0?
• Is UTF-8/Unicode/Chinese/Japanese text supported?
• Can I use ASP with HTMLDOC?
• Is there a DLL that can be called?
• Can HTMLDOC embed fonts?
• How can i embed my own fonts?
• Does HTMLDOC support forms?

Troubleshooting Questions

• Why does the format change when converting from HTML to PDF or Postscript?
• Why Does the & Character Not Appear in the Output?
• Why Does the < Character Not Appear in the Output?

Windows-Specific Issues

• How can I get wildcards (*.htm) to work?
• Can I use HTMLDOC with Apache on Windows?