first impressions of FrameMaker 8

[Dov Isaacs]

If you in fact go over the two activation limit due to
equipment failure, call the phone number that appears on
your screen to talk with the Adobe Activation Center.
They are very understanding about such situations and
unless you abuse the privilege (such as having a hardware
failure every week), they will add an activation to your
copy via the activation server. There was quite a bit of
angst about the activation when it first appeared on
Photoshop 8 on Windows and then on CS2 for all products
and platforms. In reality, things worked out well with
relatively few hiccups. Most of the big complainers were
in fact users who previously tried to install one copy
of a program on a whole fleet of computers.

	- Dov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Syed Zaeem Hosain [mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: Dov Isaacs
> Cc: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Sarah O'Keefe; framers at frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
> 
> Hi, Dov, et. al.
> 
> Dov Isaacs wrote:
> > The activation mechanism supports two activations such
> > that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
> > you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a third
> > system), there is a function to DE-activate on a system
> > which adds one back to your available activation count.
> > That system does work pretty well.
> 
> I believe that Acrobat 8 has something similar. I discovered
> that by accident ... my laptop died and I could not have gone
> through the process of DE-activation. When I loaded it onto a
> new replacement system, I got a screen message that it was being
> activated a second time (or some such info, as I recall badly
> now).
> 
> Since this license is only one machine anyway (I bought a second
> copy of Acrobat 8 for my home system), I did not worry about it
> at the time. I hope that this issue does not get in my way if
> this laptop (or OS load) croaks and I have to reload the OS in
> any way.
> 
> Z
>