We are currently using XMetaL 8 with SDL Live Content Architect 2013 (soon to be upgraded to SDL Tridion Docs 2018). One of our users has installed XMetaL 8 but the SDL Authoring Bridge install can't find XMetaL (says that XMetaL 8 is not installed, but we can see it fine in Windows Programs and Features). Does anyone know:

 * If XMetaL 8 must be fully licensed on the machine before the Authoring Bridge install can detect it (the license server is shut down for XMetal 8, since it is so down-level - Just Systems provided an "unregister" executable for us, so we can use it until the upgrade).

 * What the authoring bridge install checks to detect XMetaL (i.e. a specific registry key).

Many thanks for any help you can give.

Paul Masalsky
McAfee