Trying to find the serial number for my InDesign

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March 14, 2008
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Greetings all,

I work in the art department of a printing company that has 11 artist on Macs using Adobe software. I'm currently reformatting some of the Macs we use to clear off old software. My problem is that I need to reinstall the same InDesign back onto the respective Mac, I have 11 copies of InDesign, and I'm not sure which one is on a particular Mac. As you can probably infer the organization of our software up to this point is not exactly well thought out.

So, long story short, how do I locate the serial number for InDesign on the Mac? I know it used to show you a partial serial number in the opening splash page, and in Illustrator you can find it in the system info panel under the help menu. But, I just can't find it in InDesign.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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_Mark_Fulton_

Participant

If you go to the 'Help' menu in Photoshop , assuming you're on CS3, Click 'System Info' and go to the twelfth line down, you will see the first 20 numbers.

Mark

BobLevine

Community Expert

Deactivate the software and then reactivate. Your serial number will be
displayed. (I think the credit for this goes to Peter Spier).

Bob

mayamck1

Participant

How do I deactivate?

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_paul_kempin_

Participant

I don't know what version of ID you're using. In CS2 you can get the first 10 digits of the serial number from the About InDesign under the InDesign menu column.

Harbs.

Legend

paul_kempin@adobeforums.com wrote:
> I don't know what version of ID you're using. In CS2 you can get the first 10 digits of the serial number from the About InDesign under the InDesign menu column.
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It's the first 20...

He's probably using CS3 which doesn't have an easy way to find out.