Pagemaker and Type Manager

[Begbie]

Hi, forstly thanks so much to all contributers - i ahve spent over a week gathering info from these forums and have successfully created a dozen or more unattended software packages for up coming upgrade.

I cannot however get Pagemaker 7.02 and Type Manager Delux4.1 to do any of the silent/unattended stuff that people say it should.

I ahve tried to create my own abcpy.ini but this doesnt seem to work and none is supplied on the CD. I ahve tried capturinbg the setup.iss for pagemaker (Type Manager doesnt create one) but this has no effect when run in silent mode, the install appears to fail silently with an error (see below).

Anyone know how toi install this stuff silently?

[installShield Silent]

Version=v5.00.000

File=Log File

[ResponseResult]

ResultCode=-12

[SandmanUK]

Both Adobe and InstallShield refuse to help with this. However, it is possible to create the silent install. The response code in the setup.log file (ResultCode=-12) indicates that something in the setup.iss file is either missing or in the wrong order. The problem is the penultimate dialogue box "View PageMaker Readme". If you uncheck this when running the installation and capturing the .iss file, the silent installation will fail.

Solution: re-run the setup.exe -r and capture a new .iss file, only this time select the option to view the PageMaker Readme File. The installation will be successful and you will merely have to close the Readme File on conclusion.

For the sake of clarity, here is the setup.iss file I used successfully.

[installShield Silent]

Version=v5.00.000

File=Response File

[File Transfer]

OverwriteReadOnly=NoToAll

[DlgOrder]

Dlg0=SdWelcome-0

Count=11

Dlg1=AskOptions-0

Dlg2=SdAskOptionsList-0

Dlg3=SdLicense-0

Dlg4=SdSetupType-0

Dlg5=CUSTOM_USERINFO-0

Dlg6=SdConfirmRegistration-0

Dlg7=SdComponentDialog2-0

Dlg8=SdStartCopy-0

Dlg9=SdFinish-0

Dlg10=MessageBox-0

[sdWelcome-0]

Result=1

[AskOptions-0]

Result=1

Sel-0=0

Sel-1=0

Sel-2=1

[sdAskOptionsList-0]

Component-type=string

Component-count=1

Component-0=US English

Result=1

[sdLicense-0]

Result=1

[sdSetupType-0]

szDir=C:\Program Files\Adobe\PageMaker 7.0

Result=301

[CUSTOM_USERINFO-0]

Business=-1001

Individual=-1002

Salutation=HDC

FirstName=HDC

MiddleInitial=N

LastName=HDC

Company=Horsham District Council

SerialNumber=103911271524360481313956

[sdConfirmRegistration-0]

Result=1

[sdComponentDialog2-0]

Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles-type=string

Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles-count=3

Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles-0=Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles\Kodak Open InterChange RGB

Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles-1=Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles\Kodak Photo CD

Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles-2=Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles\PhotoShop CIELab

Kodak CMS\KPCMS-type=string

Kodak CMS\KPCMS-count=3

Kodak CMS\KPCMS-0=Kodak CMS\KPCMS\needed files

Kodak CMS\KPCMS-1=Kodak CMS\KPCMS\extra files

Kodak CMS\KPCMS-2=Kodak CMS\KPCMS\Kodak System File

Component-type=string

Component-count=2

Component-0=Kodak CMS\Colorspace Profiles

Component-1=Kodak CMS\KPCMS

Result=1

[sdStartCopy-0]

Result=1

[Application]

Name=PageMaker 7.0

Version=7.0

Company=Adobe

Lang=0009

[sdFinish-0]

Result=1

bOpt1=1

bOpt2=0

[MessageBox-0]

Result=1

I hope this helps. If you email me with any details of the problems you are experiencing with ATM, I'll gladly investigate for you.

Marc