Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2022-06-14 Thread Peter Gold
"Escalate" is the magic word to remember and employ early-on whenever dealing with corporate tech-support and customer-service resistance. When I did Ashton-Tate dBASE tech support around 1987, a customer wanted the legal department to rewrite the product license because it was going to expire in

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2022-06-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
I finally got around to contacting Adobe about this. Couldn't find a phone number so used chat. After I stumped the bot it connected me to an agent. Konari (6/13/22, 4:13:42 PM PDT): Thank you for your time. I want to inform > you that software is no longer distributed by > Adobe. We no longer hav

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-13 Thread Craig Ede
Good point, Robert! We may need a bill of rights regarding software that mandates things like this. Support is one thing, but access to the software once you paid for it should be mandatory (even through reinstalls on new machines when the old one cracks). Back in the early 90’s Photoshop was c

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
That doesn't mean they can disable software I paid for. On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:17 PM Fred Ridder wrote: > > More to the point, Adobe support for the 8.x Acrobat generation officially > ended in November 2011, a full decade ago. ___ This message is

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-13 Thread Klaus Daube
On 12 Nov 2021 at 18:52, Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: > I now occasionally have Acrobat Pro (the latest version!) dropping into a > constant "cannot check with server" (or some such message), when I start > Acrobat > Pro. MhM, I have Acrobat Standard 2017 (Classic) 2017.011.30204 installed since the

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-12 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
o: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software Being that the software came out in 2006, the activation servers are probably shut down. This is the current customer service number: 1 (800) 833-6687. I suspect you are going to have to go up the food chain unt

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-11 Thread Fred Ridder
Subject: Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software Being that the software came out in 2006, the activation servers are probably shut down. This is the current customer service number: 1 (800) 833-6687. I suspect you are going to have to go up the food chain until you get someone that

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-11 Thread Craig Ede
t: Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software Acrobat 8? You can't reactivate that any more. The activation servers have been shut off because they couldn't be kept running anymore, and the software won't work on new hardware/software. If you need to create PDFs, forms, have share

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
Not true. It was working fine on this PC for four years. That's no excuse for invalidating the license anyway. On Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 2:05 PM Lin Sims wrote: > ... the > software won't work on new hardware/software. > > If you need to create PDFs, forms, have shared reviews, etc., you'll either >

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-11 Thread Lin Sims
Acrobat 8? You can't reactivate that any more. The activation servers have been shut off because they couldn't be kept running anymore, and the software won't work on new hardware/software. If you need to create PDFs, forms, have shared reviews, etc., you'll either have to subscribe to Acrobat or

Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-11 Thread creamertraininglists
Being that the software came out in 2006, the activation servers are probably shut down. This is the current customer service number: 1 (800) 833-6687. I suspect you are going to have to go up the food chain until you get someone that can help you. David Creamer IDEAS Training ___

[Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

2021-11-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
This is for Acrobat Standard 8.0 but I figure the issue's the same as for FrameMaker. I've had this on my Windows 7 (now 10) system for four years without trouble. A few weeks ago I installed Acrobat Reader because some downloaded PDFs are not compatible. Today I got an activation dialog that seem