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Top 5 Reasons Startups license our products

Reason #1: Small business-oriented licensing options

We understand the fiscal challenges of starting or running a small business. Smaller companies may qualify for our small business licensing option, which enables access to our best-of-breed technologies (such as Adobe's PDF Library SDK) which they might not otherwise be able to afford.

Reason #2: Code samples and ramp-up assistance

It's important that startups be able to get up to speed and running quickly. Time is money; and the sooner products can be brought to market, the better. We offer several tools to facilitate this:

• Extensive code samples — we have over 100 unique code samples which demonstrate everything from extracting text from PDFs to building a PDF viewing application with annotations. Many customers take one (or more) of our samples and use it as the basis for their production application.
• Ramp-up assistance — our Support Engineers go "above and beyond" what you might normally expect from a Support Department. Have a general question on how to get started? Need us to look at your code? Want a tweak to an existing code sample, or do you need a new one written? It's not unusual for us to do all of these things. Some new customers have even opted for an "immersion orientation" to the PDF Library, coming to our downtown Chicago offices and spending one-on-one time with a Development Engineer to help build their application.

Reason #3: The Adobe brand

As startups attempt to enter markets, many are faced with the challenge of getting their foot in the door. Being able to leverage the Adobe brand and associate themselves with enterprise-class technology helps lower these barriers to entry.

Reason #4: Breadth of functionality

We have found that sometimes customer building solutions initially intended for Market X sometimes morph them solutions for Market Y, evolving and adapting to changing market conditions. The Adobe PDF Library SDK encompasses a broad range of functionality: you can license the Library for programmatically bookmarking PDFs, then later extract text for search engine indexing; or you can programmatically print PDFs "silently" on a printer, then later insert watermarks or password-protect PDFs. No other SDK offers the breadth and currency of functionality as the Adobe PDF Library SDK.

Reason #5: .NET and Java interfaces

New applications are being written in .NET or Java. With few exceptions, we find this to be the general rule. That's why we developed .NET and Java language interfaces to the PDF Library SDK. Now it's easy for developers to drop the Library into their .NET or Java application and start manipulating PDFs quickly.