Hi,

I want to install foxit reader silent. But I'm not able to copy it from my cd to the 'program files' dir.

Can someone give me the exact commando for xcopy to do this?

this is the code I use now:

set CDROM=d:

for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%i:\wpi.ico set CDROM=%%i:

echo Found CD-Rom as drive %CDROM%

md "%programfiles%\pdfreader"

xcopy %cdrom%\software\BasicSoft\pdfreader\ "%programfiles%\pdfreader\" /E

assoc .pdf=acrobat

ftype acrobat="%programfiles%\pdfreader\foxitreader.exe" "%%1" "%%*"

Hi. How many files are you trying to copy? If I'm not mistaken, you only need to copy the main foxit executable, right? Then, why do you have use XCOPY when you can simply use the COPY command?

Anyway, try this: (you can skip the md "%programfiles%\pdfreader")

xcopy /s /i "%cdrom%\software\BasicSoft\pdfreader" "%programfiles%\pdfreader"

You can try different combinations of switches. (ex: /e /i )

Please post your results.

Edited September 11, 200520 yr by totoymola

Great, seems like that one works!

(Had to copy 2 files. there is a dll file too)

thx mate

I felt stupid after trying a half an hour.

No problem friend. It happens to me too all the time.

I'm very glad to hear its working now.

Another suggestion:

If you want to make everything simple, try making an sfx.

Edited September 11, 200520 yr by totoymola

I made an sfx with izarc, but I've got an alert every time. So I don't know how to make them silent with izarc.

Have no winrar here, I only use free software

Could try 7z offcourse... But I prefer izarc, more user friendly. (although 7zip supports drag and drop now too..)

New version is out now... With installer. But no option to doe it silent :s

I will look at the latest release when I get home later.

Dude, I can't find the Foxit PDF installer.

Anyways, I created my own installer. Feel free to use it.

Get it from HERE.

Just run it without any switch, and it should install silently.

The installer is on their download page. It is pretty with no silent switches that work with it.

I downloaded the zip and used Inno Setup to create the installer as you would have done totoymola.

ISS

; Source files should be in folder named {app}, next to this script.

[Setup]
OutputBaseFilename=Foxit Reader v1.3.0.909
AppCopyright=Foxit
AppName=Foxit PDF Reader
AppVerName=Foxit PDF Reader v1.3
DefaultDirName={pf}\Foxit
ShowLanguageDialog=auto
AppendDefaultGroupName=false
DisableProgramGroupPage=true
AllowNoIcons=true
DirExistsWarning=no
InternalCompressLevel=ultra
SolidCompression=true
UsePreviousGroup=false
UninstallDisplayIcon={app}\Foxit Reader.exe
UninstallDisplayName=Foxit Reader
AppPublisher=Foxit Software
AppVersion=1.3.0.909
VersionInfoVersion=1.3.0.909
VersionInfoCompany=Foxit Software
VersionInfoDescription=PDF Reader
WizardImageFile=C:\Program Files\Inno Setup 5\WizModernImage-IS.bmp
WizardSmallImageFile=C:\Program Files\Inno Setup 5\WizModernSmallImage-IS.bmp
DisableDirPage=true
ChangesAssociations=true
AlwaysShowDirOnReadyPage=true

[Files]
Source: {app}\Foxit Reader.exe; DestDir: {app}

[Icons]
Name: {commonstartmenu}\Foxit Reader; Filename: {app}\Foxit Reader.exe; WorkingDir: {app}; IconFilename: {app}\Foxit Reader.exe; Comment: PDF Reader; IconIndex: 0

[Registry]
Root: HKCR; SubKey: .pdf; ValueType: string; ValueData: FoxitReader.Document; Flags: uninsclearvalue
Root: HKCR; SubKey: .pdf; ValueType: string; ValueData: application/pdf; ValueName: Content Type; Flags: uninsdeletevalue
Root: HKCR; SubKey: FoxitReader.Document\Shell\Open\Command; ValueType: string; ValueData: """{app}\FoxitReader.exe"" ""%1"""; Flags: uninsdeletevalue
Root: HKCR; Subkey: FoxitReader.Document\DefaultIcon; ValueType: string; ValueData: {app}\FoxitReader.exe,1; Flags: uninsdeletevalue

Dude, I can't find the Foxit PDF installer.

Anyways, I created my own installer.  Feel free to use it.

Get it from HERE.

Just run it without any switch, and it should install silently.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice job, but it does not register itself as default reader.

But I can do that with a batch script.

Nice job, but it does not register itself as default reader.

But I can do that with a batch script.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No dude. It should be associated with PDF files. Try it again. It works pretty good on my machine. Please try it again, preferably on a clean machine. Or uninstall your existing default PDF reader first.

MHZ, I was actually planning to use Inno for this small application. But I figured out that I'm not that familiar with it. Thats why I created an MSI instead. But I'm pretty sure that the output installer created with Inno is smaller compared to an MSI because of its 7Zip compression.

Can anybody please tell me what is wrong with this batch file, it keeps giving me errors:

REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE /D "Foxit PDF Reader" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE 1 /D "COPY \"%CDROM%\Software\Foxit\Foxit.exe\" \"%systemdrive%\Applications\Foxit\Foxit.exe\"" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE 2 /D "ASSOC .pdf=FoxitReader.Document" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE 3 /D "FTYPE FoxitReader.Document=%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Applications\Foxit\Foxit.exe \"%%1\""

%KEY% and %CDROM% are defined and work perfectly with other commands, so that is not the problem. I guess there is something wrong with the command itself but what?

i made my own SFX archive for Foxit PDF Reader.

just take 'FoxitReader.exe' and 'fpdfdll5.dll' and put them in a SFX archive with WinRAR.

and for the comment :

Path=Foxit PDF Reader

SavePath

Silent=1

Overwrite=1

Shortcut=P, "FoxitReader.exe", "", "", "Foxit PDF Reader"

it create the folder for Foxit and the shortcut

simple and it works well.

Edited September 20, 200520 yr by r0sWell

But what about the .pdf association?

You need to press to make the application the default pdf reader.

I want that automated also

There should be multiple errors in my batch file