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Licensing Prerequisites
To license Arbortext Publishing Engine, you will need to:
You must obtain your Arbortext Publishing Engine license from the PTC support web site. Obtaining Licenses provides more information on obtaining a license.
Request a license on the PTC Support site at support.ptc.com. Have your customer login, password, customer number, and Host ID for the Arbortext PE server. See Requesting Licenses for instructions, particularly on how to get the Host ID.
Receive the license pack file containing your configured license. The license pack file is a text file attached to an email from PTC License Management (LM@ptc.com). Save the attached license pack file to a folder on the Arbortext PE server. See Receiving Your License Pack for instructions.
You may not have to enter license information for Arbortext Publishing Engine if a license administrator has already deployed license information to the Arbortext PE server. License information is stored in an environment variable, explained in PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE Environment Variable.