1-step RoboPDF

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Their website openly claims that these activation codes are only used for security purposes to keep people from stealing their software and would never be used to get people to buy upgrades which obviously is an outright lie. What they're doing is probably illegal but I don't think I'm going to take them to court for $50, unless of course there are thousands of others like me and a hungry attorney who would like to file a class-action lawsuit for several million.
Enough rambling, I didn't really write to complain.  I just like software, paid for it, and would like to get it working and thought maybe someone could help me to hack the activation code so I can actually use the darn software. I've attached their 'go pound sand" letter to my post.

If you have a copy of RoboHelp, it will almost certainly have a PDF writer with it. If you only got it a few months ago, it will likely be RoboHelp 8 and that installs a lite version of Acrobat. You will be better off with that.
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See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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