Acrobat 8 not activated

Acrobat 8 from CS3 is not activated. Had CS3 running few years, all programs activated except Acrobat. Acrobat activate and deactivate keys are greyed out. How to activate?

Hi Patp01,
Please follow the steps from 'Solution 2' onwards provided at the following link:
Error "Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat is not activated" | Acrobat
This might help you.
Regards,
Anubha

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Adobe CS3, Acrobat Professional 8.1.0, Windows XP Pro: CS3 has been working faultlessly for several years. Suddenly, when I try to print using Adobe PDF as printer I get message "Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat not activated". To my knowledge all of CS 3 should be activated. InDesign, Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator, etc work fine. I can even open Acrobat 8 and call up documents but I cannot print to it. When I click on "Activation" in Help menu, both "Activate" and "Deactivate" are grayed out. Any suggestions?

Perhaps you should use this tool:
<http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/licensing.html>
The tool repairs the license but before using this tool, have you tried re-booting the system just in case this is a temporary problem? Also, it is a good idea to create a temporary profile and try using the PDF printer to see if it is working.
If it is working in your temporary profile, then this suggests that your preference file might need to be re-created but this is for next time after you have tried using the pdf in your test profile.
G/L

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Hello,
Not sure if this should go in the printing section, but it seems like an installation issue, so here goes....
We installed CS6 Design & Web Premium about six months ago, under Windows 8, on a charity/education licence from a registered re-licencer. After about a month, Acrobat stopped working - I think access was denied because it 'wasn't registered', even through it was. Most issues were eventually resolved by - I think - running 'Acrofix', but even so I don't I never been able to print a PDF from within a PDF using Acrobat (and on the rare occasion I've wanted to do so I've used Bullzip instead).
After a long delay I'm about to make the jump from Quark to InDesign, but have just found that elements of the old problem have re-emerged, or were never solved in the first place. Although I can print to PDF from within Quark/Word etc. using Acrobat, when trying to do so from InDesign the process hangs while displaying a 'Downloading procset' message - this occurs whatever test file is used, even a new file with a just single text frame. There doesn't seem to be any problem in Exporting to PDF. And I've also just noticed that I cannot print to PDF from Photoshop or Illustrator either. In both cases, the process terminates (not hangs) with a different message: 'Acrobat PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat is not activated'. Acrobat has been activated, along with the rest of the CS6 suite (I've been using it ever since the 'blip' in the first month or so), so I don't know what the issue is. I think I may have gone through a reinstall/reactivation process for Acrobat before - but annoyingly I can't remember (and didn't make notes) about whether this or the Acrofix route got things running again (and I don't think I would have tested whether printing from Photoshop or Illustrator worked afterwards).
Does this sort of issue ring any bells with anyone, or does anyone have any idea of how to sort things out?
Thanks.
Nick

Hi Ajlan,
Thank you for your response to this, and for the link. That's very much appreciated.
In fact it occurred to me this morning to try one more avenue (which I probably should have thought of before) before trying your suggestion. From the Help menu within Acrobat I ran Repair Acrobat Installation, which ran for about a minute or so. Although this didn't seem to have any immediate effect (the print issues remained), a few hours later there was a pop-up notice of an available update to Acrobat X Pro (something I'd never had before in all the four or five months in which CS6 has been installed), which I duly allowed to run - and this seems to have cured all the print issues (printing a PDF as another PDF using Acrobat, and printing to PDF from InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator).
So I guess the installation was corrupt somewhere along the line, and the repair function and subsequent update sorted that out (I imagine the corruption which left Acrobat being seen as 'not installed' when printing was also inhibiting online updates).
I'm slightly worried that this might all re-emerge in 30 days' time, as I had thought this had been sorted out before (I think, although I can't remember for sure, using something like the method posted in your link). But for now I'm relieved and a happy bunny - but can I keep your email on file to contact you in case this does re-emerge?
I'll post this (apart for the last paragraph) online in case it's of use to anyone else. Thanks again for your help.
Best wishes,
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I recently needed to move my system over from XP to Vista since programs were unresponsive due to virus infection. Re-installed CS3 Design Premium which comes with Acrobat 8 Professional.
Had no problem previously creating PDFs, but now sometimes I can and sometimes I can't. When attempting to print from a report obtained from www.intellicorp.net (background check) I get an error message that says the software has not been activated, but it has been. I can print to Adobe from my Windows Calendar.
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Acrobat 7 just isn't compatible in the Windows 7 64-bit environment.
An excerpt from a KB article from the days of XP x64.
[ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/331/331732.html ]
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Setup was unable to create a new item: Adobe PDF Port Printer," when you install Acrobat 7.0 or Acrobat 3D. The Adobe PDF Printer will not be created. Therefore you will be unable to print to the Adobe PDF Printer to create PDF files. Additionally, other PDF creation paths that use the Adobe PDF Printer will fail; this includes the PDFMaker functions in MS Office applications and AutoCAD and the Create PDF From Multiple Files option in the Acrobat file menu.
To create PDF files, create PostScript files and open them in Acrobat Distiller 7.0 to convert them to PDF. For instructions on creating PostScript files for use with Distiller, see document , "Install the AdobePS printer driver to create PostScript and printer files in Windows applications."
This KB article has a link for 64-bit compatibility of Acrobat 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x respectively.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb403291.html
In a Windows 7 64-bit environment if Office 2010 applications are used and it is desired to use Acrobat's PDFMaker then Acrobat X is needed.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/333/333504.html
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Hi t0m#2410,
How did you install Acrobat, did you install it as a part of Suite installation.
If it is a part of suite then deactivate suite uninstall Acrobat, Reinstall Acrobat using Suite media. Launch Photoshop first and Activate.
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