Re: FrameMaker/RoboHelp/WinHelp Tutorials

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM>]

bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com wrote:
>
> 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.

Check the installation menu of FrameMaker. When it comes up, you have a
choice to install as a demo (that is, without a licence) or as a
registered
owner.

The demo doesn't allow you to save, and (I think) prints a watermark on
all
printed pages.

But, if installing as a demo isn't legal, then someone should tell the
people who do Adobe demos - I've had at least two tell me that it is.
Also, I've seen
"demo" copies given out by Adobe whose only difference from a commercial
copy was the lack of a manual and a registration number.


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