Indesign Server Licensing

I am looking into purchasing a 3rd party product for doing dynamic date publishing using Indesign. The vendor is telling me in order to be complaint with Adobe I need to purchase an Indesign Server license even though the 3rd party application doesnt need it. It will basically sit on the shelf and collect dust. The vendor isnt even looking for us to purchase Indesign Server through, so its not like they are making any money.
Just doesnt make sense on why I would need to purchase it. I have tried calling Adobe sales reps numerous times and either no one knows the answer or I never get called back from the people who are supposed to know the answer.
I figured this was the best board to post this on, not sure if it would be better somewhere else.
Does anyone have any insight into this? Any response is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I had trouble - the instructions send you down some confusing paths - but I got it working eventually. The "Installation Instructions.pdf" file indicates you need to activate the trial with Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE), but sends you to a link that says nothing about APTEE. It turns out you can find APTEE in a download called Adobe Application Manager Enterprise (AAME), which doesn't say much about APTEE, but does install APTEE in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\Enterprise\utilities\APTEE\CS6". You don't actually need to create a distribution package of the product installer with the UI of the installed AAME software as you might be led to believe; in the folder above is a command line tool, for which the "indesign-server-cs6-release-notes.pdf" file provides incorrect command line information regarding how to activate the 90 day trial (spurious spaces at line breaks and in command line options that are supposed to be "--" not "- -"). The actual correct command line I used successfully to activate the trial was "adobe_prtk --tool=StartTrial --leid=InDesignServer-CS6-Win-GM" .
It really shouldn't have taken that much figuring out (especially since the InDesign Server CS6 installer itself has a UI which suggests you can just choose an option for trial mode). You can only get on the right track by reading and then ignoring the instructions, and searching around for the right download on the Adobe site.
Glenn

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Found: download and install Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition and in terminal window enter adobe_prtk --tool=StartTrial --leid=V7{}InDesignServer-10-Mac-GM.
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Hi, JP43.
For what it's worth, your question is on the boundary between the scripting forum and the general forum.
So from what I've learned thus far, to be complient with most suppliers, I must use some file format like postscript or eps,
This seems a bit peculiar. The obvious format for your document output would be PDF. PostScript and EPS seem weird choices, though certainly conceivable (well, I don't think you can have multi-page EPS files, but you can certainly have 20 EPS files and you can have multi-page PostScript files, but they tend to be output-device specific, though they need not really be).
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and to do this, it looks like InDesign Server might be what I'm looking for.
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The installation instructions states
You need to download Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE) for using the InDesign Server trial
The download link only refers to CS6, CS5.5 & CS5 not CC
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However I got the Adobe InDesign Server is not properly licensed and will now quit message.
According to the CC Release notes it says:
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My computer was online yet the it seems it didn't perfom the automatic activation as it suggests. When I entered my AdobeID credentials I did not get any errors saying it could not connect online.
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This allowed me to get pass the licensing issue.
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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server x64>indesignserver
================================================================================
. InDesign CC Server Version 9.0 x64 Evaluation
. Copyright 1999-2013 Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors.
. All rights reserved. See the other legal notices in the ReadMe.
================================================================================
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Cannot start trial InDesign Server CC Mac

Following the instructions here:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/c reativesuite/pdfs/Adobe_Provisioning_Toolkit_Enterprise_Edition_v5.pdf
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Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated
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