Adobe Creative Suite Unattended

[Incroyable HULK]

So, I've been reading a lot of topics about Creative Suite. If there is one thing I really find annoying is having to go thru a lot of topic to finally get some informations so here is my contribution:

1- It doesn't seems possible to install the whole suite from one single point. Even if I could, I prefer having control over each application individually.

2- All you have to do, is to provide the following information under the OEM Section in the Abcpy.ini file located in the folder of each applications (not for Acrobat):

;*************************************************;OEM Section
;*************************************************
[OEM Install]
DisableOnlineReg=YES
DisplayWelcomeDlg=NO
DisplayEULA=NO
DisplayXPDialog=NO
DisplayTypeOfInstallDlg=NO
DisplaySelectDestDirDlg=NO
DisplayCustomDlg=NO
DisplayUserInfoDlg=NO
DisplayConfirmRegDlg=NO
DisplayStartCopyDlg=NO
DisplayFinishDlg=NO
DisplayFinalMessage=NO
DisplayRebootDlg=NO
AllowMaintenanceMode=YES
ProgGroupName=
DefaultDestDir=
FName=Celine
LName=Dion
MI=
UserCompanyName=Tasteless Music Co.
UserSerialNumber=111122223333444455556666
DisplayBackGround=NO
DisplayProgressBar=NO
ProgressBarStart=NO
ProgressBarEnd=NO

REMAINING BUGS:

Photoshop CS

-none

Indesign CS

1- Halt message at the beginning of installation (Close all Adobe Applications Bla Bla Bla...):

Illustrator CS

1- Halt Message at the beginning of installation (Close all Adobe Applications Bla Bla Bla...):

GoLive CS

1- Halt at the beginning of installation (Close all Adobe Applications Bla Bla Bla...):

2- Halt for QuickTime installation at the end

Acrobat

Follow this thread here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35147

Please share your solutions to resolve the remaining issues

BTW, thank's to ADOBE for such a mess

[Incroyable HULK]

There is an alternative I have been exploring. You can use a setup.iss answer file with the InstallShield installer. BUT there is one big issue in my case: it doesn't support the use of a system variable such as %programfiles% (and it doesn't support the omition of this entry).

In the setup.iss file, I have to specify a full path for the installation directory:

[{EFB21DE7-8C19-4A88-BB28-A766E16493BC}-SdAskDestPath-0]
szDir=D:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS
Result=1

And the problem is that in some case the Program File is located on the D:\ drive and sometimes on the C:\ drives.

So I have done 2 setup.iss files; one for each drive and I am using the following command to install with RunOnceEx:

REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "\"%CDROM%\Adobe Photoshop CS\setup.exe\" -s -f1\"%CDROM%\Adobe Photoshop CS\setupd.iss\" -f2\"%systemdrive%\test.log\"" /f

This command works perfectly but I would like to put a condition to check

IF %ProgramFiles%="D:\Program Files"

GOTO line X

ELSE

GOTO line Y

Can someone help me with this condition in my RunOnceEx Batch file

[PryGuy]

Thanks for sharing this tip!

And what do I do with the Activation dialogue which appears right after the Photoshop CS installation?

[galvanocentric]

I can't even get through making the setup.iss file as towards the beginning setup fails with an "access denied" error for the Asian PDF Font Support.

Thanks though, I may just have to restart.