Downgrading Adobe Software

Most writers I’ve worked with don’t know that Adobe will allow you to downgrade a product by one version when you purchase the current version. This could come in useful, for example, if you have an expanding documentation team using software that’s not backwards-compatible (I’m thinking RoboHelp and FrameMaker in particular): instead of upgrading licenses for everyone on the team, you can buy current licenses for the newcomers and downgrade them to be compatible with the software the team is already using. More information is available at Adobe’s page on volume licensing policies.

It would be nice if you could roll back by more than one version, but given the cost of some of these products, having even that much flexibility can be enormously valuable!