If it's not even launching at all, I would suspect something in your environment is killing the process. Just to check that it's not that issue with the licensing servers, try disconnecting from the Internet and then launching FM. What happens in that case?
Thank you for your reply, Jeff. Indeed, it's not launching at all: no splash screen, no process to see in the Task Manager. I have already tried wat you suggested: disconnect from the Internet, restart my computer, deleted the Linguistics folder, sign out from the Creative Cloud... nothing helps.
Probably time to reach out to the FM folks - see -support.other.html#framemaker for your Adobe Support options. I'd recommend using the tcs...@adobe.com e-mail address as it reaches a team dedicated to Technical Communication Suite products including FrameMaker.
OK, so now I can finally get some work done. And hopefully, I will still be able to start FrameMaker tomorrow, when I'm back in the office, or next week, when I'll be teaching FrameMaker to some customers.
My other Adobe applications (Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign) all start, but FrameMaker won't. And my other editors (Oxygen XML Editor and Word) even start without an Internet connection, which seems obvious to me, but FrameMaker won't.
Both with FM-15 (2019) and with FM-16 (2020) I haven no problem to start it with no Internat Acess (WiFI off, checked with e-mail etc.) I do not get any message during start and further on. Maybe a message would show up after some hours of work.
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