Adobe Document Server (ADS): Unavailable for Purchase.

Hello All,
As per the recommendations from SAP in the GRC AC 10 guides, Adobe Document Server (ADS) should be installed for generating PDF reports. However, while searching this product online on the Adobe website, I find that this product is no longer available for fresh purchase. However, Adobe has recommended 3 other products which we could use as an alternative, which are:
PDF distillation and page assembly - Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator ES
Document formatting u2013 Adobe LiveCycle Output ES
Form data merge/extraction u2013 Adobe LiveCycle Forms ES
For details on this anouncement from Adobe, please refer to the link - http://www.adobe.com/products/server/documentserver/
Thus, would like to know, which one of these is recommended to go for. Any ideas and thoughts?
Thanks.
Hersh.
Edited by: HERSH GUPTA on Oct 27, 2011 5:24 PM
Edited by: HERSH GUPTA on Oct 27, 2011 5:25 PM

Hi Leonel,
Please follow the instructions on Note 944221
Award points if u find the answer helpful.
Cheers,
Damien

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