[Framers] [EXTERNAL] Adobe licensing is migrating to subscription based

[Shmuel Wolfson]

If you ever need to reinstall it, and it uses a license server to check 
the license when you install it, it may eventually not be able to 
install. This happened to me with Acrobat 7, and Adobe was nice enough 
to give me another installer that did not require a license server. I 
hope they keep being nice. Although legally they probably have to help 
you, who wants to have to take them to court.

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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
058-763-7133

On 26-Aug-20 3:03 PM, Tom Beiswenger wrote:
> This may be a really stupid question, but because it involves an Adobe product, it probably isn't... what happens to those of us using earlier versions of FM? I am the only writer in our company using FM and work with FM12 on a new Windows 10 laptop. FM12 is a little quirky on Win 10, but I've found ways to adapt so that I can keep FM. The alternative for me would be to go to AuthorIT, which isn't bad, but really isn't very good about creating books for print and digital (using conditional tags that allows us to optimize the book for digital display).
>
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> You are correct, and I mentioned that on the FrameMaker group on the Adobe forums. That's not the only issue on Adobe's site. At the moment, the only way that I, who have a Teams subscription through work, could upgrade to FM2020, was to download the free trial. There's a download link on the account page for our FM subscription, but it takes you to the CREATIVE CLOUD downloads page and has for more than a year. I've made multiple complaints but Adobe hasn't fixed it. FM seem to be the red-headed stepchild of Adobe.
>
> As to an earlier email of yours, there is no difference between someone upgrading from an earlier version to 2020 or someone getting a new subscription to 2020. The subscription price is the same for everyone.
> There are two annual options (no monthly option for FM!): one is to prepay for a year (about $360), the other is to pay monthly ($29.99) for a year's subscription (which totals about $360) with cancellation fees if you cancel it early.
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 5:07 PM Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Lin,
>>
>> That link mentioned FM _server_ versions, not the FM applications ...
>> unless I overlooked something?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Z
>>
>> Lin Sims said:
>>> This is an authoritative list of all of Adobe's products and when
>>> they
>> went End of Life and when Extended Support was ended. I hope it helps.
>>
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