SDK Licensing

Question

The SDK documentation implies that there may be a license and/or royalty fee for using the SDK in professional applications.  It also states that the amount and type of fees are subject to your usage.  I have not been able to find any more specific information on the Adobe web site.
I called the Adobe sales department to get more specific information.  They said I had to contact customer service and transfered me to that department.  Not surprisingly, customer service told me I must speak to sales, so I told them I started with sales and they transfered me to customer service.  The customer service rep then had an impromptu discussion with her "colleagues" and told me there are no licensing or roylaty fees when using the SDK to print PDF documents.
I was tempted to ask her for that in writing but felt like the entire exercise was a waste of time.  I sense that I should start with sales again but before I do I figured maybe someone could help me on the forums.
Can anyone tell me the licensing requirements of using the Acrobat SDK to programmatically print PDF documents in a professional application (an application that my company sells for profit)?  Or at least direct me to the correct section of the Adobe web site or the correct (and preferrably competent) department to call so that I may obtain this information?
Thank you in advance for any help,
Z

Answer 1

Depends on what part(s) of the SDK you use:
If you are going to be developing an application that controls Acrobat or Reader via JS/IAC/COM/OLE/DDE - no cost. (and your users will need to have Acrobat or Reader installed)
If you are going to be developing a plugin to Acrobat - no cost.  (and users need Acrobat installed)
If you are going to be developing a plugin to Reader - cost.  (and users need Reader installed)
If you are going to be developing a stand-alone application with the Adobe PDFLibrary - cost.  (but no extra items required to be installed).