FYI: This is for those wanting a little more control over the install of Acrobat Products (Acrobat, Reader, Distiller, PDFWriter, 'Umbrella' Installer, Business Basics Installer).
Use an Acrobat Tool (or manually*1*) to edit 'abcpy.ini' (Adobe's install ini). This may be useless information for some of you, but I (young, learning on my own SysAdmin) found it helpful. required: AEIT (Acrobat Enterprise Installation Tool) [http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/deployment.html] Free 'Adobe ID' Registration Required Acrobat Reader Installation Package (ie. 'acroreader51_enu_full.exe') [http://adobe.com] howto: 1. Install the AEIT 2. Extract the contents of 'acroreader51_enu_full.exe' to 'z:\packages\acroreader51_enu_full\' (or any other functional name) 3. Open AEIT 4. Select the folder you just extracted the acrobatreader files to. 5. Customize to your hearts content Whenever setup is ran the setup will follow the rules found in Abcpy.ini which AEIT just modified for you. If you select it in AEIT the installation will run nice and silent, except for the short InstallShield screen that loads the setup. That can probably be hidden with an InstallShield switch. I was upset that this "Enterprise Tool" couldn't customize more. It does not give you the large list of options that you find in the Acrobat Reader preferences screen. I wanted to turn off Internet Updates, and this was the best route I could find. I would have liked to be able to edit preferences and get more detailed on how updates are handled, but I may have to go the profile route to handle it. *1* You could manually edit 'abcpy.ini', it doesn't look to complicated. While typing this post I found an EXTREMELY detailed document [http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/abcpydoc.pdf] relating to the Acrobat Installers & 'abcpy.ini'. If you are doing mass installs of any Acrobat Product, this is definetly worth a look. -- Sean -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze ------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
