[MacTUG] FYI: Adobe CS3 apps refuse to register/activate

[Glenn Anderson]

The following appeared today on MacFixIt's site.


Monday, July 16 2007 @ 07:04 AM PDT

Adobe CS3 apps refuse to register/activate: iTunes update to blame?
Readers are reporting an issue where Adobe CS3 applications refuse to  
register, in some cases delivering the error message that the  
applications have already been registered to "Mac Vegas," --  
apparently an internal Adobe build/development name.
One reader writes:
"I have installed both an Adobe CS3 Design Premium and Standard on  
freshly imaged Macs. I have used retail pressed Adobe media as well  
as their disk images directly from Adobe's FTP download location. In  
each case, after registering the suite and supplying my serial  
number, Adobe Acrobat did not have our serial number information in  
its about window, while the rest of the application suite is properly  
registered. [...] We are trying to create a deployment package for  
the new release of Adobe CS3 Design Premium software - as part of our  
overall deployment planning and testing processes and we obviously we  
don't want to create a package with a serial number that may expire  
and render our copies of Acrobat & Distiller useless."
Meanwhile, we've received some indication that an iTunes update  
(perhaps 7.3.1) may have somehow had a breaking effect on the Adobe  
activation scheme.
If you are experiencing a similar issue (inability to activate Adobe  
CS3 apps), please let us know.



Glenn Anderson
Client Services, IST
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, On
519-888-4567 x33327
anderson at uwaterloo.ca



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