Acrobat for Windows XP

[Pete987654zzz]

Hi, I have an old pc with InDesign CS4 and Acrobat 8 Standard. Being Windows XP I keep it offline. The pc failed recently and the repairman replaced the HDD. All my programs work except Acrobat which insists it must be “activated”, but I understand that is not possible as it’s no longer supported by Adobe. I use this pc occasionally to typeset changes to legacy documents which I need to output as PDFs for the professional printers. Is there any way I can create PDFs on this pc? Thanks, Pete.

[DeanUtian]

Have you tried the offline applicaton steps as below:
https://exception.licenses.adobe.com/aoes/aoes/v1/t1?locale=en

There is more information below. It links to the above page which says works for CS5 so not sure if it is available for CS4.
https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/activation-deactivation-help.html 

[Abambo]

Acrobat 8 activation servers have been retired and there is no possibility to re-activate Acrobat 8. You could use InDesign CS4 to do your corrections, by placing PDF pages into InDesign and putting text boxes over the text data to be corrected. This will work on monochrome backgrounds.

You could also try using Illustrator, if you have that program, to edit your PDF files.

If those options do not work out for you, it is time to look for a replacement workflow.

Edit: if you find on this forum a thread talking about Acrobat 8 and activation, I would like to point out that most of those threads are outdated and the information given is most probably not accurate for today's situation.