Evaluation Licensing

During evaluation of Accusoft products, Evaluation licenses can be used to try out products. This license permits an Accusoft product or toolkit to be used on a system, whether it is a development machine or any other type of system. This type of license is best noted by an Evaluation dialog displaying occasionally while the product is in use. Once the Evaluation dialog is dismissed, the product will continue to operate. Other forms of Evaluation or trial behavior include the watermarking of images when displayed or saved. When an Accusoft product is first installed onto a system, if no other license currently exists on the machine (and no other license is provided by the user during the installation), an Evaluation license will be placed on the system by default.

No licensing calls are necessary to run the product in Evaluation mode. To switch between Watermark and Dialog mode of Evaluation Licensing, use the ImGearEvaluationManager Class.

ImGearLicense.SetSolutionName method should no longer be used to initialize Evaluation licensing.

An evaluation dialog similar to the following is displayed when you have a valid evaluation license.

When ImageGear is being evaluated for use on a web server, product behavior is limited by watermarks rather than dialog pop-ups.

When you determine the product is a good fit, you can purchase a Toolkit License to eliminate trial dialog pop-ups or watermarks.