Accusoft requires customers who are developing code that uses Accusoft components to have a Toolkit license for each developer.
This section provides information about the following:
Assigned Development License
When licenses are purchased for developers at an organization, a representative is designated to assign the licenses to developers at the organization. Each developer must create an account on Accusoft’s website prior to the assignment of licenses. The organization’s designated representative may request that licenses be reassigned as a result of personnel changes.
License Manager
The License Manager is a GUI application that is used by a developer to register and activate Toolkit licenses on their development system. The License Manager is in the License > License Manager folder of your install directory.
Registering the Toolkit
When a paid Toolkit license is registered, the License Manager:
- Communicates the developer credentials and the hardware information for the development system to the licensing web service.
- Installs the returned license key on that system.
See Registration (below) for more information.
Activating the Toolkit License
Activation involves the developer choosing a Toolkit license so that the license is active on the system.
See Selecting An Edition (Activating a Toolkit License) under Product Editions (below) for more information.
Accusoft License Manager
Product Editions
Accusoft products may have multiple editions, each of which supports different features.
Selecting An Edition (Activating a Toolkit License)
Since each license supports only a single edition of a product, the developer can switch between editions by activating the corresponding Toolkit license using the License Manager.
When a customer downloads an evaluation toolkit, it runs in Unlicensed Evaluation mode with the most features by default. However, the developer may run the License Manager to install or change the Toolkit license to another edition in order to determine if that edition will serve their needs.
If a customer has purchased multiple editions of the same product, they may install both editions on a development system, but only one edition may be active at a time. Once a license has been activated for a particular system, it may be deactivated (replaced by activating another edition) or reactivated at any time.
Registration
Registration is the process of creating a paid Toolkit license key for a particular system. Registration for Toolkit licenses is always done through the License Manager. This enables the features for the purchased edition to operate without nag dialogs or watermarks.
Registration for each license is only required to be performed once per development system. After a license has been registered on a system, the developer can use the license without further interaction with the License Manager.
Also refer to How to Register a Toolkit License.
Developing Code
Once a paid Toolkit license has been activated on the development system, no additional code is required to use the Accusoft products on this system without evaluation restrictions.
If moving the resulting executable code to a new system, you will need to install Toolkit licenses or incorporate Runtime licenses into your code.