Adobe activation required?
When Photoshop was installed apparently it's not talking to the adobe acrobat? Evertime I go into Acrobat it gives me an error message " Suite Product Activation - To enable Adobe Acrobat please start another component of this suite such as Adobe Photoshop." When I open Photoshop, then Acrobat, nothing changes, so I'm guessing I have to do something else, but can't figure out what.. Help...please
I don't know if this message will help your situation, but activation is a recurring problem
Adobe Activation note in #4 9-11-09 http://forums.adobe.com/thread/488108
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