Difference between revisions of "PDFCreator"

Revision as of 11:03, 2 November 2005

Do a manual installation of PDFCreator using the dos shell:

PDFCreator-0_8_0_GNUGhostscript.exe /SAVEINF="pdfcreator-0.8.0.inf"

Use the inf-file for the installer:

<package
       id="pdfcreator-0.8.0"
       name="PDF Creator 0.8.0"
       revision="1"
       reboot="true"
       priority="1000">
       <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="PDFCreator 0.8.0" />
       <install cmd='\\server\wpkg\files\pdfcreator\PDFCreator-0_8_0_GNUGhostscript.exe /LOADINF="\\server\wpkg\files\pdfcreator\pdfcreator-0.8.0.inf" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SP-' />
       <remove cmd='"%ProgramFiles%\PDFCreator\unins000.exe" /VERYSILENT' />
</package>

• Watch out to really use the /NORESTART parameter in the install. If you don't this will happen: the installer will restart the machine, but wpkg doesn't have time to make a note about the successful installation, on reboot wpkg will try and reinstall the package, but skip because it finds "PDFCreator 0.8.0" in the uninstall folder. PDFCreator has been installed, but the user will always be nagged by the wpkg notification after a reboot.
• Using the environment variable %ProgramFiles% keeps your uninstall independent of the windows language version. Watch out to also remove the Path="c:\somepath" entry in the inf-file if you want a truly language-independent installation.
• There is also a patch for this version of PDFCreator. Because it produces the same uninstall entry as this version, i.e. "PDFCreator 0.8.0" I have not yet found a way to successfully add it as an additional package.