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Although product activation was the initial holdup (the upgrade disk asked me to call support, which didn't offer a fix), it turns out Acrobat 6 died due to a Windows update, so reinstalling wouldn't have fixed this since Microsoft broke compat with a recent update.

This is further explained here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-winapps/adobe-acrobat-on-windows-81/ca855b9d-36c7-4869-9e1c-7741642880a2

The solution was to install Acrobat 8 Professional on the workstation, which is available here:

Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 Download - TechSpot

Please close out this issue, thanks.

-Tres

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Sheena Kaul
Sheena Kaul
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March 1, 2016

Issue regarding Acrobat 6.0 setup.

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tresf
tresfAuthorCorrect answer
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March 1, 2016

Although product activation was the initial holdup (the upgrade disk asked me to call support, which didn't offer a fix), it turns out Acrobat 6 died due to a Windows update, so reinstalling wouldn't have fixed this since Microsoft broke compat with a recent update.

This is further explained here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-winapps/adobe-acrobat-on-windows-81/ca855b9d-36c7-4869-9e1c-7741642880a2

The solution was to install Acrobat 8 Professional on the workstation, which is available here:

Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 Download - TechSpot

Please close out this issue, thanks.

-Tres

tresf
tresfAuthor
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March 2, 2016

Sorry to tell you this. Acrobat 8 is no longer available to buy, and was a chargeable upgrade. What you found seems to be a widely distributed pirate copy, I believe. It has been repeated so often that even quite reputable sites have posted it.


They're distributed on this site, so "pirated" and "widely distributed" are quite suggestive.

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