• Adobe Activation Site

Adobe software activation Phone activation. You can activate your product via the Internet or by phone, either with a live customer service representative or through the 24-hour automated voice response system. To activate by phone, find the number to call by selecting your location from the following list (these numbers are also accessible.

The following is a list of software products by Adobe Inc.

• Adobe Document Cloud services, which let you complete essential PDF tasks with the Acrobat Reader mobile app or in your web browser, including storing and sharing files online. Document Cloud services also enable complete workflows for sending, e-signing, and tracking documents.
• Adobe Creative Cloud is the successor to Creative Suite. It is based on a software as a service model. It includes everything in Creative Suite 6 with the exclusion of Fireworks and Encore, as the both applications were discontinued.
• Adobe activation reset request, If you have received a message that you cannot activate your device because you’ve reached your limit of adobe device activations, contact your library or use the form to reset the activation for your device.
• Manage your Adobe Account profile, password, security options, product and service subscriptions, privacy settings, and communication preferences.

Active products[edit]

Products

Software suites[edit]

Experience Cloud[edit]

Adobe Experience Cloud (AEC) is a collection of integrated online marketing and Web analytics solutions by Adobe Inc. It includes a set of analytics, social, advertising, media optimization, targeting, Web experience management and content management solutions. It includes:^[4]

• Analytics
• Experience Manager^[5]
  • Experience Manager Assets
  • Experience Manager Sites
  • Experience Manager Forms
• Audience Manager
• Campaign
• Advertising Cloud
• Target
• Primetime
• Marketo Engage

Creative Suite[edit]

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) was a series of software suites of graphic design, video editing, and web developmentapplications made or acquired by Adobe Systems. It included:

Creative Cloud[edit]

Adobe Creative Cloud is the successor to Creative Suite. It is based on a software as a service model. It includes everything in Creative Suite 6 with the exclusion of Fireworks and Encore, as the both applications were discontinued. It also introduced a few new programs, including Muse, Animate, InCopy and Story CC Plus.

Technical Communication Suite[edit]

Adobe Technical Communication Suite is a collection of applications made by Adobe Systems for technical communicators, help authors, instructional designers, and eLearning and training design professionals. It includes:

• Presenter

eLearning Suite[edit]

Adobe eLearning Suite was a collection of applications made by Adobe Systems for learning professionals, instructional designers, training managers, content developers, and educators.

Discontinued products[edit]

• BrowserLab^[6]

• Adobe Collage

• Adobe Creative Mark

• Adobe Debut

• Displaytalk

• Adobe Dreamweaver Extension
• Drive
• DS Community Edition
• Adobe Dv Rack

• Edge family^[7]
• Encore (discontinued in CC)
• Fireworks (discontinued in CC)

• Adobe FrameMaker XML Autho
• Adobe Graphics Server

• Home Publisher

• Adobe Ideas for Android

• Illustrator Line

• Adobe Incontext Editing

• Adobe Kuler for Android

• LeanPrint
• LaserTalk

• Adobe Media Gateway

• Adobe NetAverages

• PDF JobReady

• Adobe PDF Scan
• Adobe Premiere LE

• PressReady

• Adobe Proto
• RoboInfo

• RoboSourceControl
• RoboPDF
• Adobe Secure Content Servers*[[Adobe Shockwave|Shockwave]

• Adobe Studio
• SVG Viewer

• Adobe Type on Call
• Ultra (formerly Serious Magic Ultra)
• Version Cue

• Adobe Vlog It!

See also[edit]

• Macromedia, a company Adobe acquired

References[edit]

1. ^'Adobe Experience Cloud release notes - January 2019'. adobe.com. January 2019.
2. ^'Request early access | Adobe Aero'. projectaero.adobelanding.com. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
3. ^'Welcome to Adobe Spark! - Adobe Spark'. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
4. ^'What is Adobe Experience Cloud'. adobe.com. October 15, 2019.
5. ^'Adobe Experience Manager'. adobe.com. October 15, 2019.
6. ^'WordPress › Error'. blogs.adobe.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
7. ^'WordPress › Error'. blogs.adobe.com. Archived from the original on 26 June 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.

Recently my Photoshop CS3 decided to tell me that my license activation was expired/needed re-activation. I thought this had to do with a Windows 10 update from the week before breaking things as it also wrecked my MS Office installation.

Of course the reactivation failed with a connection error saying “Activation – No Connection”. And of course the phone activation service has been discontinued by Adobe.

The cause of the activation or connection error is Adobe has “retired” their older activation servers. It was these servers that Photoshop CS3 were connecting to every time I started the program (ie to check that the serial code is legit).

What this means is that older Adobe software such as CS3 and Acrobat 8 can no longer be activated.

But wait there is a solution

Don’t try talking to Adobe support as they don’t know their ass from their elbow and after telling you a list of steps to take (steps I’d just finished telling them I’d already taken without success before speaking to them) they will tell you that Adobe CS3 is no longer supported and to find your answer in the Adobe community forums. Since I’m a glutton for punishment, I went through this process twice with Adobe “support staff”. In order words, Adobe’s official advice is to “figure it out yourself. And so I did.

Here is the solution to the Adobe CS3 activation error. You will need an Adobe ID.

1. Get a new (free) CS3 serial code, as your old one is now useless. You can do this by going to https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs3-product-downloads.html and click the Sign in link (down past What are my options?)
2. Download the new CS3 installer (link found on the page after you sign in)
3. While downloading the new installer, uninstall the old CS3
4. CRITICAL STEP – Delete cache.db file from Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache.
5. In case you missed step 4. Skip this step and nothing will change and you’ll get the activation error again. CRITICAL STEP – Delete cache.db file from Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache.
6. Reboot
7. Optional, if you want to be extremely thorough: Run the Adobe Cleaner Tool (get it here https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html). Mine didn’t find anything to remove.
8. Optional: Reboot
9. Install Photoshop CS3 using the new CS3 installer
10. Start the program, rejoice when it asks for your new serial code
11. Have a minor heart attack when you get another activation error
12. Rejoice when you realise it’s just a product registration error. Click “Never register”, and go have a beer.

Yay.

Critcal step was found here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2371664

Adobe Activation Site

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