1. Save the license file (GeographicCalculator.lic) you receive via e-mail from Blue Marble Geographics to a folder on your local machine, or to a shared network folder (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Your saved license file.

NOTE: E-mail software often renames incoming files, and the Geographic Calculator will not recognize a license with a name other than GeographicCalculator.lic as being valid. If your saved file has any other name, please rename it to GeographicCalculator.lic before attempting to import.

2. Open the Geographic Calculator. The system will prompt you that it does not yet have a valid a license file (Figure 2):

Figure 2. The Geographic Calculator without a valid license file.

3. Click No.

4. From the Menu Bar, select File --> Import License File. The system will present an Open dialog (Figure 3), from which you can browse to your local drive or network shared folder to retrieve the license file:

Figure 3. The Open dialog. Please select your GeographicCalculator.lic file.

5. Select the GeographicCalculator.lic file and click Open. The system will prompt you that the license file was imported:

Figure 4. You have successfully imported your license file.

6. You can now click File --> License Information to verify that your Single user license is valid (Figure 5).

Figure 5. The License Information message box.