Dear Manfred

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No, there is no link or relation between the licenses. Both the developer and the end-user need to have their own license for running APID.

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Yes.

On top of that, if you (as a developer) choose to use the licensing tools provided with APID, then your user will also need a license file from you (not us) - but that choice is up to the developer.

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The APID is a superset of the APIR - so if the user has APID installed, it will also provide all the functionality of the APIR. APID is a drop-in replacement for APIR.

APID provides both:

- all functionality of APIR
- a runtime for APID-developed solutions

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Yes. Because the APID is a superset of APIR, any APIE-developed solution will run against both an APIR or an APID runtime.

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The license file is created with a so-called 'license generator' - this is a command-line application (Mac OS X/Win32  -other platforms can be provided on request; there might be an additional cost involved for these other platforms) that accepts the end-users InDesign serial number plus the unique identificationcode the developer chooses for the scripted plug-in.

This license generator has not yet been released for sale to the general public, but it is in beta now, and will become available in the next few weeks.

This application creates a license file which can then be sent to the end-user by the developer.

For our own needs at Rorohiko we have wrapped this command-line application into a web server setup, so our own license generation is fully automatic - but the developer can choose for manual or automatic approaches - whichever is most suitable.

In the next few weeks we'll also officially introduce some changes to the current pricing scheme.

Currently, a single-user APID is priced at $99.00.

That will drop to US$25.00 for a 'naked' single user license. Multi-user licenses stay at their current price level as listed on the web page for APID.

On top of that we'll introduce a new product - (APID + License Generator); a combined package at US$149.00.

So, the pricing will be:

APID + License Generator: US$149.00

APID single user: US$25.00
APID 10 user license: US$199.00
... (multi-user licenses stay the same).

The APIE (which allows you to create solutions that run with the freely downloadable APIR) is currently priced at US$15000.00.

(Legalese: These prices are tentative only and subject to possible changes - final prices will be made public in a next few weeks)

APID + License Generator is what a developer would purchase

APID 1, 10, 100... license packages is what end-users would purchase, or what a developer could purchase to on-sell to his customers.


I hope I have answered all your questions!

Best regards,

Kris

(P.S. US$15000 might sound expensive, but consider that the APIE is meant for solutions that target > 2000 seats. Around 2000 end-user licenses, APIE becomes cheaper than APID - US$7.50 per license or less).

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Yes. The developer is free to pick whatever is most suitable. He/she can also link to our download links (i.e. have their own web page but have the download come from our server, etc...), or tell the user to get it from us, or copy it to his/her own download area, or include it,... - anything goes.

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No. The licensing for Monkeys is between the Monkeys developer and the customer.

With APIE the developer gets a tool to generate license files.

As a developer you can handle everything the way you want - either set up things manually, or you could build a fully automated sales/license delivery web site. Rorohiko is not involved in that (nor do we want to be!).

Ah, sorry! Did not understand that.

For APID there is one extra hoop.

One way or another the end-user needs to get a licensed copy of APID installed (one for each copy of InDesign he has). For the APID itself, the end user will need a license from Rorohiko.

However, once that copy of APID is installed and licensed, we're (Rorohiko) out of the picture; from then on it works just the same as with APIE: the developer has a license generator and interacts with his customers for selling, licensing, etc... and Rorohiko is not involved in that.

How does the end-user get hold of APID? That's again up to the developer to decide - a few possible scenario's:

1) The developer bundles a demo of APID with his solution. The end-user can try it out, and eventually needs to purchase two separate licenses - one from Rorohiko for APID (if not already done prior, of course), and one from the developer for the custom solution.

2) The developer bundles a full version of APID with his solution. To achieve that, the developer purchases a number of 'blank' single-user APID licenses from Rorohiko.  These licenses come in the form of so-called 'coupon codes'. They are not yet linked to an InDesign serial number.

When the end-user purchases the solution of the developer, the developer provides his customer with this APID license coupon code.

Using this coupon code the end-user can acquire a license code for APID from Rorohiko via web and e-mail. The end-user clicks 'Get License...' and uses the coupon code on the Rorohiko licensing web page.

Kris,

any indication when the new pricing scheme will be in effect? our company will probably need to order a few licenses to start development...