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LynnHales1-Visitor
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May 10, 2012
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Print licenses between 5.4 and 6.0

  • May 10, 2012
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I have an older license (grandfathered thank heaven) for print composer with my 5.4 (and previous) installations.

I now have to do some testing of print output using Epic 6. Does anyone know if I install the Epic 6 print composer license how it will impact my 5.4 license?

Typically I am allowed one fixed and one portable license with each license. As most of the work I support still is in support of 5.4 users. I am hesitant to make the switch if I lose my 5.4 functionality.

Any help on this one would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks


Lynn

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    LynnHales1-VisitorAuthor
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    May 11, 2012
    Well I took the plunge and answered my own question.

    I transferred the print composer license from 5.4 to 6.0. Took me a while to figure out how to make the license work. What you have to do is go into the Windoze environment variables and change the file name for the PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE environment variable.

    The Epic licenses are all in one file rather than the single file per license under the Elan system.

    When I went to the Help/session in menu, I was a bit peeved to see Print Publisher license as "Not Obtained". But as I have Print COMPOSER, I went ahead and tried to print preview a file. IT WORKED, well I didn't get the "unable to obtain license" error.

    Then I went to the machine I had the print license for 5.4 installed on. The 'session' said 'print composer NOT OBTAINED'. But when I tried to do a print preview, it too worked. YEAH.

    Now to close this post and do another one.


    Lynn



    ---- Lynn Hales <-> wrote:
    > I have an older license (grandfathered thank heaven) for print composer with my 5.4 (and previous) installations.
    >
    > I now have to do some testing of print output using Epic 6. Does anyone know if I install the Epic 6 print composer license how it will impact my 5.4 license?
    >
    > Typically I am allowed one fixed and one portable license with each license. As most of the work I support still is in support of 5.4 users. I am hesitant to make the switch if I lose my 5.4 functionality.
    >
    > Any help on this one would be greatly appreciated.
    >
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    >
    > Lynn
    >
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