Appendix A: Identifying Installs¶

Identification methods¶

Basics:

Use SWIDs: Acrobat Professional and Standard are delivered in a single installer and therefore have identical SWIDs. To identify your install, use a combination of the serial number and the LEID contained in the SWID file. Use this Windows script to automatically get the SWID details.
Do NOT use GUIDs: Because they share a single installer, Pro and Standard GUIDs are identical. Using GUIDs to identify the install has been unsupported since 11.x.
64-bit: The 64-bit installers (post Feb 9, 2021) are ID’d via the user interface. If the product is 64-bit, the string “64-bit” appears in the app title bar, under Help > About, and in the Windows Add/Remove programs UI.

64-bit Acrobat Pro vs. Standard¶

Both the LEID & SWID tag identification methods are not applicable to the Acrobat 64-bit unified installer iniitially released in Feb. of 2021. To distinguish between Standard and Pro installations, ID the install via the registry:

#. Go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVEntitlement\iEntitlementLevel # ID the install:

300: Acrobat Pro

200: Acrobat Standard

Licensing identifiers (LEID)¶

Licensing identifiers (LEID) provide a unique way to identify most of Adobe’s licensed products. You will need to know a product’s LEID in the following workflows:

Installing a serialized product via a package created with AAMEE (typically CS bundled products).
Using the APTEE tool to perform licensing and activation tasks.

Product LEIDs:

Continuous Track: V7{}AcrobatCont-12-Win-GM
Classic Track 2017: V7{}AcrobatESR-17-Win-GM
Classic Track 2015: V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM
Classic Track 2020: V7{}AcrobatESR-20-Win-GM

Note

Once an ETLA serial is provided, the LEID changes for unserialized commands. For both tracks, it becomes V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Win-GM (on Windows) and V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Mac-GM (on Macintosh). For example, you would use the “ESR” LEID version to initially serialize, and you would use the “ETLA” version to deactivate or perform any other action with the prtk utility.

Temporary “bridge” LEIDs

To facilitate migration to named user licensing, Adobe issued bridge serial numbers for some Acrobat 2015 users. These serial numbers are associated with different LEIDs. If you are using these bridge serials, you must use the correct LEID when unserializing prior to migrating to a new serial via the PRTK.

V7 {} AcrobatStd-Beta12-Win-GM
V7 {} AcrobatPro-Beta12-Win-GM

Server LEIDs¶

There are also server LEIDs for ETLA serials on version 12.1. While ETLA serials on a server are serialized using any of the product LEIDs for Acrobat, Classic 2015, or Classic 201, deserialization requires using the server LEIDs below:

Windows LEID : V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Win-GM Mac LEID : V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Mac-GM

Software identification tags (SWID)¶

Software identification tags (SWIDs) help IT organizations manage software assets by providing the ability to identify the license state of installed software. SWIDs also provide a method for distinguishing between subscription (cloud) and boxed installs.

Note

For an overview of Adobe’s usage of ISO/IEC 19770-2:2009 software identification tags in Acrobat and CS products, see the Software Tag document.

SWID files are located under ProgramData. For example:

C:\ProgramData\regid.1986-12.com.adobe\regid.1986-12.com.adobe_AcrobatPro-AS1-Win-GM-MUL.swidtag

The tag file name is of the format: <regid>_<product_title>-<unique_software_identifier>.swidtag. The values are determined as follows:

<regid>: regid.1986-12.com.adobe is Adobe’s regid.
<product_title>: The product name which is the same as the value of <product> in the tag file.
<unique_software_identifier>: A combination of the product licensing identifier and licensed locale which is the same as the value of <softwareID/unique_id> in the tag file. Locale information is applicable only for products that are not installed in the trial mode.

SWID location¶

The SWID file resides in C:\ProgramData\regid.1986-12.com.adobe\<filename>.swidtag

List of SWIDs¶

SWID fields¶
License type	Serial #	Product	LeID	Status	Channel type	License type
Acrobat ETLA - std	9101xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Win-GM-MUL	activated	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat ETLA -pro	9707xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Win-GM-MUL	activated	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat Vol – std	9101xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM-en_US	activated	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat Vol – pro	9707xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM-en_US	activated	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat ret – std	9101xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM-en_US	activated	RETAIL	RETAIL
Acrobat Ret –pro	9707xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM-en_US	activated	RETAIL	RETAIL
Acrobat Std subscription	9101xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V6{}AcrobatStd-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	activated	SUBSCRIPTION	RETAIL
Acrobat pro subscription	9707xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V6{}AcrobatPro-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	activated	SUBSCRIPTION	RETAIL
Acrobat Std upgrade serial	9101xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM-en_US	activated	RETAIL	RETAIL
Acrobat Pro upgrade serial	9707xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM-en_US	activated	RETAIL	RETAIL
Acrobat offline - prov.xml std	9101xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Win-GM-MUL	activated	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat offline - prov.xml pro	9707xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatETLA-12-Win-GM-MUL	serialized	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Acrobat offline type1 - std	9101xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}AcrobatESR-12-Win-GM-MUL	serialized	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat XI Retail – Pro	9707xxxxx	Acrobat XI Pro	V6{}AcrobatPro-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	activated	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Acrobat XI Subscription Pro	9707xxxxx	Acrobat XI Pro	V6{}AcrobatPro-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	serialized	SUBSCRIPTION	RETAIL
Acrobat XI Volume Pro	9707xxxxx	Acrobat XI Pro	V6{}AcrobatPro-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	activated	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat XI Retail Standard	9101xxxxx	Acrobat XI Standard	V6{}AcrobatStd-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	activated	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Acrobat XI Volume Standard	9101xxxxx	Acrobat XI Standard	V6{}AcrobatStd-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	activated	VOLUME	VOLUME
Acrobat XI Subscription Standard	9101xxxxx	Acrobat XI Standard	V6{}AcrobatStd-AS2-Win-GM-MUL	activated	SUBSCRIPTION	RETAIL
Acrobat - CC Full Subscription (Type2)	9096xxxxx	Adobe Acrobat	V7{}CreativeCloudEnt-1.0-Win-GM-MUL	activated	SUBSCRIPTION	RETAIL
Acrobat Pro XI - CC Full Subscription (Type 2)	9096xxxxx	Acrobat XI Pro	V7{}CreativeCloudEnt-1.0-Win-GM-MUL	activated	SUBSCRIPTION	RETAIL

Example SWID file¶

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<swid:software_identification_tag xsi:schemaLocation="https://standards.iso.org/iso/19770/-2/2008/schema.xsd software_identification_tag.xsd"
  xmlns:swid="https://standards.iso.org/iso/19770/-2/2008/schema.xsd" xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<!--Mandatory Identity elements -->
<swid:entitlement_required_indicator>true</swid:entitlement_required_indicator>
<swid:product_title>Acrobat X Pro</swid:product_title>
<swid:product_version>
 <swid:name>10.0</swid:name>
 <swid:numeric>
  <swid:major>10</swid:major>
  <swid:minor>0</swid:minor>
  <swid:build>0</swid:build>
  <swid:review>0</swid:review>
 </swid:numeric>
</swid:product_version>
<swid:software_creator>
 <swid:name>Adobe Inc.</swid:name>
 <swid:regid>regid.1986-12.com.adobe</swid:regid>
</swid:software_creator>
<swid:software_licensor>
 <swid:name>Adobe Inc.</swid:name>
 <swid:regid>regid.1986-12.com.adobe</swid:regid>
</swid:software_licensor>
<swid:software_id>
 <swid:unique_id>AcrobatPro-AS1-Win-GM-MUL</swid:unique_id>
 <swid:tag_creator_regid>regid.1986-12.com.adobe</swid:tag_creator_regid>
</swid:software_id>

<swid:tag_creator>
 <swid:name>Adobe Inc.</swid:name>
 <swid:regid>regid.1986-12.com.adobe</swid:regid>
</swid:tag_creator>
<!--Optional Identity elements -->
<swid:license_linkage>
 <swid:activation_status>unlicensed</swid:activation_status>
 <swid:channel_type>VOLUME</swid:channel_type>
 <swid:customer_type>VOLUME</swid:customer_type>
</swid:license_linkage>
<swid:serial_number>970787034620329571838915</swid:serial_number>
</swid:software_identification_tag>