Welcome to PStill, a PostScript/EPS/PDF/JPEG/TIFF/BMP/GIF to PDF converter written by Frank Siegert, 1996-2012. See http://www.pstill.com for more info and updates.

PStill is a copyrighted work and trademarked term ('word mark') of Frank Siegert, Germany. All rights reserved.

This installation also contains the German version of PStill. Diese Installation enthlt auch die deutsche Version von PStill.

Please read this text carefully, by clicking 'Next' you signal acceptance of the terms as presented within. You may only install and use PStill if you accept these conditions. 

PStill is licensed - not sold. Usage and distribution is subject to the following conditions. If you do not accept these you may not use PStill.

Usage is subject to the following conditions:

* You aknowledge the 'shareware' (try-before-buy) status of this software. Without valid license key it will create a watermark in the produced PDF files and writes an UNREGISTERED message in the PDF info section. For registration information see http://www.pstill.com.

* A valid license key allows you to install and run the program on one system (incl. one backup system or home machine provided that this 'backup' installation is not used concurrently with the 'main' installation). PStill may also be installed on a file server however each client using PStill needs to be licensed separately. Updates up to version 1.99 are free and may be fetched from http://www.pstill.com.

* You do not gain ownership of the PStill software. PStill is licensed not sold. All rights remain with the author. When you register will receive the limited, non-exclusive rights to use PStill for the purpose of conversion of suitable input files to PDF (PSRW license type also allows other file types) and to run and store the program on the licensed number of systems.

* You will not try to disable the license mechanism or distribute a 'hacked' version of PStill without license code or a license code created by illegal means. PStill is the result of long years of hard work, please support this software by your purchase.

* You must keep the license key or the licensed version secret. You must take proper percautions not to reveal your key to others.
  
* PStill must not be bundled with any other product without written consent of its author. Please send mail to mailto:frank@wizards.de for more information and licensing information.

* An unlicensed PStill must not be used in any production environment or for any commercial purpose nor may it be bundled with any commercial software package or distributed for money on media or the internet. Only the distribution of the unchanged PStill package free of charge is permitted provided no 'consulting fee' or 'download costs' are charged.

* You are alone responsible for any copyright violations the inclusion of fonts in generated pdf files might inflict. please read your font license agreement before distributing such pdfs files or use such fonts.

* PStill can use the local TrueType system fonts as templates for its base fonts, these fonts are renamed alike the Type 1 base fonts, their names are needed for the correct working of the PDF creation machinery. The trademark of the font names is still held by their respectful owners. The naming scheme is only used for identification purpose.

* You are using PStill entirely at your own risk:

Frank Siegert disclaims all warranties with regard to this software to the extend possible by applicable law, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness, in no event shall Frank Siegert be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance or results of this software. In any case the maximum compensation is limited to the cost of a single license.

You are advised to test the software before using its results. Due to the complexity of the task and possible setup and options variations no warranty or ensurance can be given that every input job type will convert successfully. It is possible that some cases will not work or produce bad output. No warranty can be given for the visual 'correctness' of results.

To the best knowledge of Frank Siegert the software is free of copyright or IP claims of other third parties. However since trademarks or patents are granted on a nation-based scale no guarantee can be given that the software is free of claims or its use and/or methodes of working constitutes an infringement of third party rights in your respective environment. You are alone responsible for any such infringement and your are advised to check if the use of this software collides with any patent claim in your particular legal environment before using or deploying this product.

PStill can use strong encryption (40 and 128 bit) to 'secure' the PDF results. If your local laws do not allow usage of such encryption you may not use PStill. You are alone responsible to check your local legal environment before using or deploying this software. 

* All names and symbols are used for identification purpose only. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. PostScript, Adobe, Acrobat, Distiller, PDF and others not mentioned here are trademarks or registered trademarks of adobe systems incorporated. All other brand or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. PDF and the PDF list of operators and data structures are copyright Adobe Systems Incorporated. PStill was written according to the copyrights as outlined in the portable document format reference manual version 1.2, page 22/23. Thanks to Nullsoft for their free installer software.

* Using ttf2pt1 (based on Version 3.22SNAP):

  ttf2pt1 is Copyright (c) 1997-2002 by the AUTHORS:
   Andrew Weeks <ccsaw@bath.ac.uk> 
   Frank M. Siegert <fms@this.net> 
   Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au> 
   Thomas Henlich <thenlich@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de>
   Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, <sab123@hotmail.com>
   Turgut Uyar <uyar@cs.itu.edu.tr>
   Rihardas Hepas <rch@WriteMe.Com>
   Szalay Tamas <tomek@elender.hu>
   Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
   Petr Titera <P.Titera@sh.cvut.cz>
  All rights reserved.
 
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
    must display the following acknowledgement:
    This product includes software developed by the TTF2PT1 Project
    and its contributors.

For the source code please refer to: http://www.netspace.net.au/~mheath/ttf2pt1/
 
TTF2PT1 IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

* This distribution makes use of LibTiff 
 * Copyright (C) Sam Leffler
 * Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
 * Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and 
 * its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
 * that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in
 * all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of
 * Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or
 * publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written
 * permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.
 * 
 * The software is provided "as-is" and without warranty of any kind, 
 * express, implied or otherwise, including without limitation, any 
 * warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  
 * 
 * In no event shall Sam Leffler or Silicon Graphics be liable for
 * any special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages of any kind,
 * or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits,
 * whether or not advised of the possibility of damage, and on any theory of 
 * liability, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance 
 * of this software.
 
 * Uses part of bmp2tiff
 * Author:   Andrey Kiselev, dron@ak4719.spb.edu
 *
 ******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004, Andrey Kiselev <dron@ak4719.spb.edu>
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and 
 * its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
 * that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in
 * all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of
 * Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or
 * publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written
 * permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

* This distribution makes use of LibJpeg Copyright (C) 1994-1997, Thomas G. Lane
  This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPeg Group

* This distribution makes use of the Boehm-Weiser Garbage Collector
  Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
  Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation.  All rights reserved.
  Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics.  All rights reserved.
  Copyright (c) 1999-2001 by Hewlett-Packard. All rights reserved.

  THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY 
  EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

* TeX FontFixer (DVIPS bitmap to Type 1 conversion) by Tiark Rompf, used by kind permission, Thanks Tiark!

* This distribution makes use of the S-Lang Library 1.4 (C) John E. Davis - http://www.s-lang.org/ under the Artistic License 

* This distribution makes use of the Freetype Library:

  Portions of this software are copyright  2009 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org).  All rights reserved.

* This distribution makes use of the ZLIB Compression Library (C) 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

* This distribution uses an enhanced version of 'pdftops', part of the xpdf package by Derek B. Noonburg <derekn@foolabs.com>. This software was licensed for commercial use by Frank Siegert.
 
* This distribution makes use of the FLTK library which is distributed under the Lesser GPL in modified form so static linking is allowed for binary only distributions like this one, see http://www.fltk.org for details.


PStill was created by Frank Siegert, Germany. For contact information see http://www.pstill.com
