Adobe Programs

[buzzman2005]

hey everyone

looking for ways to silently install the following Adobe Products:

Acrobat Pro 6.0

Photoshop 7 & CS (8.0)

Encore DVD 1.0

Audition 1.0

Illustrator 9 or 10

Pagemaker 7 or 8

After Effects 6.0

Premier Pro 6.0

I saw instructions for PS and Acrobat... wondering if anyone has any success using those methods with any other adobe programs.... so far i haven been able to do the abcpy.ini for silent installshield method for any of them...

Note: Everytime i record an setup.iss file and them move it to the setup directory where the setp.exe file is ... then i run setup.exe -s from dos prompt and it does not install ! i have also tried to run the said command from <start> , <run> but windows doesnt allow the execution of the setup file with the -s added on!

any help would be much appreciated........

Dave- unattended install newbie.

[Astalavista]

most of those has been discussed before and have been tackled.

check this link for adobe products

http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/browse.asp?cat=all

[buzzman2005]

ok cool ill check it out thanks.......

any idea though why everytime i record an setup.iss file and them move it to the setup directory where the setup.exe file is ... then i run setup.exe -s from dos prompt and it does not install??? i have also tried to run the said command from <start> , <run> but windows doesnt allow the execution of the setup file with the -s added on????

i don't know wht i am doin wrong????

thanks

[nfm]

/s switch worked on my adobe premiere 1.5. No switch was needed for photoshop cs. Just make sure you run setups with -r switch and get setup.iss. And also, edit your Abcpy.ini

[buzzman2005]

kamil could u please descrbe the process you took in what order as to recording the setup.iss and editing abcpy.ini please

thanks

[Astalavista]

why dont u use the search funtion?

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=27911

[blinkdt]

@buzzman2005

I don't think you will find much joy in working with the Abcpy.ini files found in most Adobe products. 'Crispy' long ago worked through the Photoshop 7 install, and it actually works. Since then it seems to me that others have tried to apply that method to other Adobe products, apparently with limited success.

Use AutoIt, if I may be so bold. It is versatile and will break any Adobe product in ways that the boys and girls at Adobe cannot circumvent. Ever. If you can point and click and type to perform an install, then AutoIt can do it for you in unattended fashion. I'm to lazy to repackage MSIs, and if a picklehead like myself can work with AutoIt, then you can too. One example:

I have Illustrator 9 and Illustrator 10 upgrade. What to do, what to do? Well, of course Illustrator 10 is the full package, but it looks for the previous version for verification before installing. In fact, if it can find the 1KB os.dat file it will be content. So I drop that file in a directory called "AI9" and run the following AutoIt (version 2.64) script, compiled as an executable.

HideAutoItWin, On
BlockInput, On

;Modify these lines for source directory
IfExist, C:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, run, C:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe
IfExist, D:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, run, D:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe
IfExist, E:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, run, E:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe
IfExist, F:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, run, F:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe
IfExist, G:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, run, G:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe
IfExist, H:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, run, H:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe

WinWaitActive, Information, To avoid restarting your system
Sleep, 1000
Send, {ENTER}

WinWaitActive, Adobe Illustrator 10 Setup, upgrade installer requires proof
Send, {down 2}
Sleep, 500
Send, {SPACE}
Sleep, 500
Send, !n

Sleep, 500

WinWaitActive, Adobe Illustrator 10 Setup, Search a specific folder
Send, {DOWN}
Sleep, 500
Send, !n

Sleep, 500

IfNotExist, C:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, Goto, next1
WinWaitActive, Find Product Application Folder, Select folder where the product
Send, C:\\Programs\\AI10\\AI9
Sleep, 500
Send, {ENTER}
GoTo, continue

next1:
IfNotExist, D:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, Goto, next2
WinWaitActive, Find Product Application Folder, Select folder where the product
Send, D:\\Programs\\AI10\\AI9
Sleep, 500
Send, {ENTER}
GoTo, continue

next2:
IfNotExist, E:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, Goto, next3
WinWaitActive, Find Product Application Folder, Select folder where the product
Send, E:\\Programs\\AI10\\AI9
Sleep, 500
Send, {ENTER}
GoTo, continue

next3:
IfNotExist, F:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, Goto, next4
WinWaitActive, Find Product Application Folder, Select folder where the product
Send, F:\\Programs\\AI10\\AI9
Sleep, 500
Send, {ENTER}
GoTo, continue

next4:
IfNotExist, G:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, Goto, next5
WinWaitActive, Find Product Application Folder, Select folder where the product
Send, G:\\Programs\\AI10\\AI9
Sleep, 500
Send, {ENTER}
GoTo, continue

next5:
IfNotExist, H:\\Programs\\AI10\\setup.exe, Goto, end
WinWaitActive, Find Product Application Folder, Select folder where the product
Send, H:\\Programs\\AI10\\AI9
Sleep, 500
Send, {ENTER}
GoTo, continue

continue:

WinWaitActive, Adobe Illustrator 10 Setup, following information must be entered
Send, {TAB 2}
Send, XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX   < -- serial no. here 
Send, !n

WinWaitActive, Information, Thank you
Send, {ENTER}

end:
exit

[ADLIB]
Information, not installed, Send, {ENTER}

Nasty, but it works great. FYI, the Abcpy.ini file found in most Adobe products is not entirely useless. Portions seem to work fine and it can be used to hide most of the dialogue boxes.

You can use AutoIt scripts in many ways for unattended purposes. Run from CD using a Autorun.inf as a standalone install, copy to $OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup for unattended Windows (you'll need to devise a way to delete it using a batch following the install), run it from WPI, or use it over a network. Yes, you can even use AutoIt to apply the update after the install and following reboot. It gets a little convoluted, but it works. Every time.

It won't be long and you will probably develop a few AutoIt "templates" that you can grab to knock out an install routine rapidly for any program.

[Astalavista]

I hv a different method for illustrator cs much simpler but i can't talk about it here. due 2 the rules

All i can say is that i use only a /S switch and setup.iss

the rest is a secret.