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Fully silent install
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 20:35
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?
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