Primer 7 trial software

A trial version of PRIMER 7 is freely available, which is downloadable from the PRIMER-e web site (www.primer-e.com), and can be run without an installation key. Whilst it is a full working implementation of all analysis routines and graphics, and permits a user’s own data to be input from Excel or text files and analysed, it is only intended to be trial software so there are a few key limitations – all printing, copying to the clipboard and saving of data and workspaces is disabled. In addition, plots are watermarked so presentation-standard output is unobtainable from screen grabs. The trial version has a 30+ day expiry date, with an additional grace period, but will then cease to operate – reinstallation of the trial version on the same machine is not possible.

A valid installation key can be purchased at any time from PRIMER-e and inputting that to the Install routine when on-line (see below) will remove all such printing and saving restrictions and water¬marks, and any updates and download of the PDF files of the manuals will then take place. The trial software includes both PRIMER and PERMANOVA+ but, if only a key for PRIMER is purchased, PERMANOVA+ routines are not enabled and their menu will no longer appear. If a single-user PERMANOVA+ licence, for use with PRIMER 6, is registered to you then no further purchase of PERMANOVA+ is needed – it operates in is essentially the same way with PRIMER 7 as it did with PRIMER 6, and you will be given a single installation key enabling both products. The Help main menu has the entries shown, starting with View Help, the HTML Help system: