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By: stealthpuppy / Deploying Adobe Reader 9 for Windows

stealthpuppy / Deploying Adobe Reader 9 for Windows — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:48:02 +0000

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By: Nicola M

Nicola M — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:54:18 +0000

[QUOTE=Nicola M]
Great work: clear and simple. I followed all instructions about creating MST file, even those involved suppressing updater from being installed. But I have a little issue when I try to install Reader 8.1.2. I usually run mst file with “setup TRANSFORMS unattended.mst” where unattended.mst is the file i got from Adobe Customization Wizard 8 and it is in the same folder of setup.exe. It doesn’t work. Reader has been installed but Updater, Eula, Beyond Reader and other feature are still up. Why? Where do I get a mistake?

PS.
Sorry for my non-perfect English

Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 9:30 am

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Aaron Parker wrote:
@Nicola: your English is very good. Have you double checked your command line? In my Adobe Reader install script I had previously used TRANFORMS= instead of TRANSFORMS=. Email me your script if you need help with this.

Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 12:45 pm
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Sorry for my long silence.
I read again, with a little bit more of attention, your instructions and finally the issue has been discovered: I launched from “Execute window” the following command Setup.exe TRANSFORMS=AcroRead.mst with no other parameters.
Now I correctly understand the use of script Install… and the sequence of execution. I have had modify the script because Italian localization of Windows hasn’t got the %programdata% environmental variable and some menu names are different.
Thank you again.
Nicola M

By: noob

noob — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:27:33 +0000

i followed the steps from above but if you click suppress reboot, it still pops up at the end of the installation. i use the Adobe Customization Wizard 8 . can someone tell me what im doing wrong?

And besides that the unatended is also not working. i want if i press double click on the program it must start installation. And not like ok where do you want to install it(like i pressed the button where to install it in the wizard, so why ask again) . and after that he ask install now like oh my god thought it was unattended now i still have to look if it all goes right :S

can someone pls clearify on this topic?

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:45:02 +0000

@Nicola: your English is very good. Have you double checked your command line? In my Adobe Reader install script I had previously used TRANFORMS= instead of TRANSFORMS=. Email me your script if you need help with this.

By: Nicola M

Nicola M — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:30:12 +0000

Great work: clear and simple. I followed all instructions about creating MST file, even those involved suppressing updater from being installed. But I have a little issue when I try to install Reader 8.1.2. I usually run mst file with “setup TRANSFORMS unattended.mst” where unattended.mst is the file i got from Adobe Customization Wizard 8 and it is in the same folder of setup.exe. It doesn’t work. Reader has been installed but Updater, Eula, Beyond Reader and other feature are still up. Why? Where do I get a mistake?

PS.
Sorry for my non-perfect English

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:06:40 +0000

Hi sls1375, have you tried uninstalling Adobe Reader and reinstalling?

By: sls1375

sls1375 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:55:28 +0000

Can someone tell me in “How to fix Adobe Reader for Dummy’s” language how to do the following, as I am completely lost and have no clue what they are really saying. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you

When you try to view a PDF in Internet Explorer, you see the error message, “There is a problem With Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Please exit Adobe Acrobat/Reader and try again.” When you click OK to the error, the PDF opens outside of the browser.

Reason
When you use the Adobe Customization Wizard to create a transform for Adobe Acrobat 8 or Adobe Reader 8, and you choose the option to “Make Acrobat the default viewer if both Acrobat and Reader are installed”, or “Make Reader the default viewer if both Acrobat and Reader are installed”, an error occurs if the computer does not have Acrobat or Reader already installed.

Solution
Create a new transform and re-deploy Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Start the Adobe Customization Wizard 8.
Open your previously created .mst file.
Under Installation Options, select “Installer will decide which product will be the default”.
Save the transform.
Re-deploy Acrobat or Adobe Reader.

Additional Information
When you create a transform in Adobe Customization Wizard 8, the installation options allow you to set the default viewer for PDF files. “Installer will decide which product will be the default” is the default setting and should be used when you are uncertain if the target machine has a version of Acrobat or Adobe Reader that won’t be removed as part of the installation process. When installed silently using this option, Acrobat will always be configured as the default viewer.

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:05:47 +0000

Hi Jason, I’ve only seen this dialog a couple of times. Do you know how to invoke it on demand?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:46:31 +0000

How do you disable the Accessibility Setup Assistant with the Customization Wizard or is there a registry key? I am creating a package for deployment and I do not want my users seeing this.

By: Rogo

Rogo — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:29:10 +0000

Aaron,

Started over again and got it working this time. Looks like I wasn’t making the proper setting change. This is all new to me so I’m sort of muddling my way through it. Opened the Feature table in Direct Editor and reset the level value for BrowserIntegration to 0 from default 1 and it works. Thanks for your help.

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:38:51 +0000

Rogo, the DISABLE_BROWSER_INTEGRATION=YES option worked for me. You could also try setting this registry value: HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Originals\bBrowserIntegration, although this doesn’t appear to be required when DISABLE_BROWSER_INTEGRATION is used.

By: Rogo

Rogo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:00:20 +0000

Aaron,

Thanks for the advice. Almost got it to work. Try to open a file on a web page and reader starts to open then get an error saying can’t open the file in the broswer, exit and open reader again then it shuts down. Option to let installer select default opener selected so I guess I’m missing something else.

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:21:34 +0000

Hi Rogo, there’s two properties in the MSI deal with browser integration: Browser_Integration and PDF_Integration. Set those manually in your transform.

By: Rogo

Rogo — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:30:36 +0000

Anybody know how to use the wizard to configure supression of opening pdf’s in the browser? Using the wizard to disable the display in browser only grays out the option in reader, it doesn’t set it to open in reader. Need pdf to open in reader not IE.

By: Mike in Nashville

Mike in Nashville — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:11 +0000

Aaron, thank you so much for your scripts, they have made life a bunch easier!

One caveat that I can’t seem to overcome: the Beyond Adobe Reader splash screen comes up after the unattended installation. What is the registry setting for this item? Is it the bDontShowAtLaunch? That’s set to 1. Changing it to 0 seems to have no effect.

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:23:18 +0000

Be sure to post back after rollout, I’d be keen to hear how it goes.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:13:39 +0000

Thanks Aaron. Didn’t think it mattered what was currently installed on the machines, but the PDF from Adobe wasn’t particularly clear. This would be an experiment for us pushing out a Reader update to machines with various existing versions of 8.x.

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:45:46 +0000

Hi Michael, if Reader 6.x, 7.x or 8.x is already installed, it will be uninstalled during the 8.1.x installation routine.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:34:36 +0000

How does this process differ if machines have an existing 8.x install? Or does it?

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:47:10 +0000

@Chard707 & jon0881: what items are you looking to disable? have you tried running the ListItems.js script to find your menu items?

By: jon0881

jon0881 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:16:11 +0000

This is just what i was after but i would like to know if there is a solution for Chard707’s comment. We can hide these items but the user can right click and get most of the functionality.

By: Chard707

Chard707 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:49:42 +0000

Does anyone knows how to customized or disable some menu in right-click menu in adobe reader 8?

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:18:50 +0000

Hi Pranav, make sure you set this registry value to 1:
HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Originals\bDisplayedSplash

By: Pranav Gada

Pranav Gada — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:52:02 +0000

I want to suppress the splash screen while opening .pdf files for all users. I was able to do that by modifying the command to open .pdf files in the registry (adding a /s parameter for AcroRd32.exe).
The registry key I modified is
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document\shell\Open\command
I modified the deafult key value from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe” “%1″
to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe” /s “%1″

This works fine when I double click the .pdf file to open the file. Btu if I open the .pdf file in the Web browser, this does not work
Please help
pranav.gada@chrobinson.com

By: stealthpuppy / Disable Adobe Updater with Adobe Customization Wizard 8

stealthpuppy / Disable Adobe Updater with Adobe Customization Wizard 8 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:52:39 +0000

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By: jack wilson

jack wilson — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:47:10 +0000

AdbeRdr811_en_US.exe -nos_ne will extract the installer contents to “%TEMP%\Adobe Reader 8″ and not execute the installer.

By: stealthpuppy / Adobe Reader 8.1.1 Available

stealthpuppy / Adobe Reader 8.1.1 Available — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:35:33 +0000

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By: Asteriksz

Asteriksz — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:51:18 +0000

Do we have an answer for Taavi Sepp’s question, regarding registry key for Smoothing?