Greeting, I just downloaded and went to install the new CS3 beta version. When I try to open the program it asks for my serial number. Then I fill in my correct serial number and it gives me an error message saying my serial number is invalid. Any ideas how to solve this problem? I also understand this is happening other folks as well. Thanks in advance. NobodysBusiness
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Sorry for any confusion or stuff not working, but please bear with Adobe and the serial numbers will work shortly. Getting this software into the hands of a valued userbase was top on everybody’s list, and was — literally — being worked on until just hours before the announcements actually hit the wires. I know because lots of people did not get to sleep last night.
Fortunately the team of people working on the Suite betas and in particular the Photoshop Public beta process are scattered around the entire world, in every single time zone on the globe, so some of us were awake while others were sleeping.
The software is fully functional and you’ll love it — just hang in there and we’ll have the serial number working as soon as they can do it at Adobe. And then maybe they’ll get a well-deserved day or two off.
and then went back and got the CS3 S/N to Activate it some hours after that.
A "non-activated" installation gives you two days to play with CS3 in "Trial mode" anyway and you can then "Activate" with the CS3 S/N once you have it.
You don’t even need to turn off the scanner in order to quit "Twain Bridge".
Fire up Activity Monitor, it will show TWAIN Bridge as one of the applications running. Just QUIT the process, you don’t even have to use "Force Quit".
It does serve other, albeit minor and arcane purposes.
For instance, if you happen to have a digital camera that generates RAW files not supported by ACR, you could use the camera manufacturer’s RAW TWAIN plug-in to convert your images and edit them in Photoshop.
This was the case for a very short while with the PEF files from my *istD. Eventually ACR supported the camera so that became irrelevant.
Sorry for any confusion or stuff not working, but please bear with Adobe and the serial numbers will work shortly. Getting this software into the hands of a valued userbase was top on everybody’s list, and was — literally — being worked on until just hours before the announcements actually hit the wires. I know because lots of people did not get to sleep last night.
Fortunately the team of people working on the Suite betas and in particular the Photoshop Public beta process are scattered around the entire world, in every single time zone on the globe, so some of us were awake while others were sleeping.
The software is fully functional and you’ll love it — just hang in there and we’ll have the serial number working as soon as they can do it at Adobe. And then maybe they’ll get a well-deserved day or two off.
🙂
Gary Poyssick in Tampa
Ok, so there is a delay in getting the serial authorisations sorted, but why give a message saying that the number entered is not eligible? Wouldn’t it have been better to simply say try again later?
I’m not as computer-saavy as most of you out there, and I cannot get beyond the "System Check" in the "Setup" window, which tells me I must first close TWAINbridge, in spite of the fact that I cannot even find it, and I rebooted thinking this would close it if was open in the background somewhere, but still no luck, it remains open. Any suggestions or solutions, please? Kindly, Miguel, Santa Barbara, CA
Oooops! Told you I was computer-challenged! Just found Ramon’s entry on quitting TWAINbridge via Utility Monitor and voila, I’m on w/ the process! Thanks Ramon! Stay tuned for my next idiotic question! -Miguel
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