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Fully silent install

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rb-purdue
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Joined: 11/18/2009

According to the instructions, the silent install option does not suppress error messages, which appear in dialog boxes requiring user interaction.  I need an absolutely silent install where error responses are returned as exit codes or written to a log file, and there is NO CHANCE of any dialog boxes appearing.  Is there any way this can be done?  Can this feature be added to a future release?

LtdResources
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Joined: 12/18/2009

Hello Rb,

I'm new to PDFCreator, i was asked to create a silent install myself and here's how i did it.

I launched the setup as follows

PDFCreator0_9_8_setup.exe /saveinf="C:\pdf.inf"

/saveinf="C:\pdf.inf" this option saves the options you select during install into an INF file which you can use when installing the software.

This then launched the installation and i chose the options i required, i selected the following

Standard Installation

Name of printer = PDFCreator

Destination = C:\Program Files\PDFCreator

Removed tick to install Yahoo Toolbar

Under Custom installation i removed "PDFCreator Browser Add On for Internet Explorer and Firefox" - i believe this is what was causing the installation error Access is Denied message for me.

Next i removed "Create a desktop icon" Click Next then click Install and Finish

To test the installation uninstall PDFCreator and install using the following parameters

PDFCreator0_9_8_setup.exe /SP /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /LOADINF="C:\pdf.inf"

The main thing to look at in the installation parameter is /LOADINF="C:\pdf.inf" this is telling the installation to install with the settings we saved earlier.

I hope this helps you out and my instructions are clear and concise enough!

For installation parameter help goto this link

http://en.pdfforge.org/content/setup-command-line-parameters

Let me know

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