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Subject:FW: FrameMaker/RoboHelp/WinHelp Tutorials From:"Link, Virginia" <LINKVI -at- DWD -dot- STATE -dot- WI -dot- US> Date:Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:06:09 -0500
Adobe distributes (free) a nice little CD demo version of Framemaker,
which you can use to play with the software's features. The demo
program can't SAVE anything you've created unless you call Adobe and get
the magic registration number, then uninstall and reinstall. We didn't
know about the "save" restrictions until we'd installed the demo
version, but since you now know that little fact, you could ask them for
the number when you order the demo CD and save yourself the
install-uninstall-reinstall hassle.
Virginia J. Link
Technical Writer
linkvi -at- dwd -dot- state -dot- wi -dot- us
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Friedman [SMTP:bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM]
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 1998 8:56 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: FrameMaker/RoboHelp/WinHelp Tutorials
>
> In our previous episode, Bruce Byfield said:
>
> > --Ask someone to borrow their CD (but not the registration number).
> Many
> > products can be installed as a demo copy without a registration
> number.
> > These installations are completely legal.
>
> That's not true of Adobe products. In fact, I've never seen that.
> Every software can think of either requires the registration number or
> doesn't (mostly, it does), but doesn't have a number-free demo
> version. There may be some, of course, but I don't think it's common.
>
> > --Buy used copies from used software stores, then upgrade to current
> > versions.
> > You can sometimes end up paying less than a quarter of the full
> price.
>
> Does anyone know if FrameMaker 5.1 (sold by Frame) is upgradable to
> the current Adobe version? I know someone who's looking to sell a
> copy, but I'm only interested if it's upgradable.
>
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