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Added instructions on how to install PDFCreator 4.0.2 Legacy
 
== About PDFCreator ==
 
PDFCreator allows any Windows program to easily create PDF files by using it like a printer so as to save to a PDF.
PDFCreator home page is https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator
 
PDFCreator is Open Source software and licensed under the terms of the Affero General Public License (AGPL). However, the installer contains bundled offers which you can decline.
You can purchase PDFCreator Professional which offers MSI installers (http://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/latest/en/pdfcreator/installing-pdfcreator/msi-installer/#msiinstaller) which has no bundled offers.
 
PDFCreator versions 4 and below supports command line switches to automate the install (and not install the bundled offers).
 
 
== PDFCreator 4.0.2 Legacy ==
 
According to http://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/latest/en/pdfcreator/installing-pdfcreator/
 
"With the release of PDFCreator 4.0.0, the Setup.exe does not support any command line parameters. We strongly suggest using the MSI Installer if you’d like to deploy PDFCreator Professional or Terminal Server. The legacy setup is available until June 2020 in the Download Section on our website.
 
Download PDFCreator 4.0.2 Legacy (PDFCreator-4_0_2-Setup_legacy.exe) at https://download.pdfforge.org/download/
 
You can create a custom INF with your preferences by running PDFCreator-4_0_2-Setup_legacy /SAVEINF="pdfcreator402.inf" and selecting custom options (and declining the bundled offers!)
 
Place the INF file in the same folder as the EXE.
 
==== pdfcreator402.inf ====
[Setup]
Lang=English
Dir=C:\Program Files\PDFCreator
Group=PDFCreator Free
NoIcons=0
SetupType=custom
Components=program
Tasks=desktopicon,desktopicon\common
Printername=PDFCreator
 
 
 
==== WPKG.XML ====
<source lang="xml">
<package id="pdfcreatorlegacy" name="pdfcreatorlegacy" revision="%PKG_VERSION%" reboot="false" priority="10">
<variable name="PKG_VERSION" value="4.0.2" />
<variable name="PKG_EXE_VERSION" value="4.0.2.10752" />
<variable name="PKG_EXE_NAME" value="PDFCreator-4_0_2-Setup_legacy.exe" />
<variable name="INF_FILE" value="PDFCreator.inf" />
 
<check type="file" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="%ProgramFiles%\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.exe" value="%PKG_EXE_VERSION%" />
<install include="remove" />
<install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\pdfcreator\%PKG_EXE_NAME% /LOADINF="%SOFTWARE%\pdfcreator\%INF_FILE%" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART' />
<upgrade include="install" />
<remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /C if exist "%ProgramFiles%\PDFCreator\unins000.exe" "%ProgramFiles%\PDFCreator\unins000.exe" /VERYSILENT' />
<remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /C if exist "%ProgramFiles%\PDFCreator\unins001.exe" "%ProgramFiles%\PDFCreator\unins001.exe" /VERYSILENT' />
</package>
</source>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== PDFCreator 2.3.0 ==
PDFCreator allows any Windows program to easily create PDF files by using it like a printer so as to save to a PDF. It is available from http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator at http://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-stable.
A list of setup commandline parameters : http://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/2.0/en/installing-pdfcreator/setup-command-line-parameters/
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