Adobe Reader 9 in spanish is avilable here: http://www.adobe.com/es/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

thanks for the information Annita.

Current available languages pending release in LITE versions:
chs
cht
dan
esp
ita
nld
nor
ptb
suo
sve
kor

Also, i will be updating all previously posted lite 9.0 versions to enable form filling.

No ETA for these releases is avaiable. I will try to have them ready early next week, this isnt a promise.
Having access to highspeed internet is rare for me and ultimately the reason these releases will take some time to get out.


shark

Ok Shark. Thnx and take your time...

Hi Shark007,

I used to download the acrobat reader from adobe and then modify or create a package (depends) for it. Then I use AD to push it out to all machines in our company. Is there a problem if I remove the current version (8.2) on our network and install your lite version 9? Of course the remove and install will be through AD.

Thank you very much.

enz

Thanks shark, waiting for the Spanish release here...

This is a HUGE project to maintain on my own. In fact, I'm stepping aside . . .
Therefore I'm posting a tutorial for those with some MSI editting skills to be able to keep up releases of thier own language(s).

I have prepared 15 new releases of 9.0 which I will make available soon,
BUT in the future I'd like to see others posting thier own work, in this thread for others to use.

Form Filling is functional in the new releases, AcroRead32Info.exe is removed with no errors in the event log (I hope)

______________________________ T U T O R I A L ________________________________
open the MSI in orca
headings.. edit/find .. type; 32info .. find next .. delete all instances found .. save

open the MSI with Installshield ..click upper TAB, Installation Designer
left column, click Setup Design
center column, expand ReaderProgramFiles .. delete, AUM, Updater
expand Plugins .. delete all instances of;
AcroSign, Annotations, Checkers, DigSig, DVA, ebook, HLS, IA32, PPKLite, ReadOutLoud, SendMail

LANGUAGE SPECIFIC ITEM
expand Plugins_UI_(language specific) .. click on Files
delete Checkers, DigSig, DVA, Hls, IA32, PPKLite, SendMail

LANGUAGE SPECIFIC ITEM
Chinese, Korean and Japanese versions have this extra step;
left column click Components, scroll center column to Resource_CIDFont_(laguage specific)
expand and click on Files, delete the files from the right column

expand Reader_Big_Features .. delete MultimediaPlugin, Atmosphere_3D, AdobeCommonLinguistics_Big
expand Accessibility_Plugins .. delete all instances of;
Accessibility, MakeAccessible, PDDom, SaveAsRTF

Left Column, click Shortcuts, under Program Menu, delete Adobe Reader 9 and PrintMe Internet Printing
Under Desktop, drag n drop the shortcut to Program Menu

Left Column click Registry, Import this registry file;

Under HKLM, expand Software/Windows/CurrentVersion .. delete Run

Left Column click Property Manager .. change the following Values;
ADMIN_INSTALL - YES
ALLUSERS - 2
ENABLE_CACHE_FILES - NO
ENABLE_OPTIMIZATION - NO
EULA_ACCEPT - YES
LAUNCH_APP - 0
SUPPRESS_APP_LAUNCH - YES
SYNCHRONIZER - NO

Left Column click on Direct Editor, center column, highlight InstallExecuteSequence
right column click the word 'Action' to alphabetize the menu
delete AumRegister and AumUnregister

SAVE

Creating an AIP ...
create the directory, c:\temp
run this command in the MSI folder; msiexec /a AcroRead.msi targetdir=c:\temp /qb

The resulting files are ready for repackaging/redistribution

____________________________ E N D __________________________


good luck, shark

That's sad new sharky, perhaps you could try to at least release the big version releases, forgettin .xx releases and sticking to 10.x/11.x etc. Just a thought.

You going away on new job or something since you dont have time for it?

Alternatively i kinda like foxit pdf reader and pdf-x change viewer, both free pdf readers, working also as portable programs.

My health is quite poor.
I'm a diabetic with constant high bloodpressure and I have had several heartattacks.


shark

I'm sorry.

This doesnt sound like much, but I truly hope you can get better, I kind of dont know what to say...
I'm glad that you take the situation seriously, only way to get something done about it I guess.

Hi Shark007, thank you very much for this tutorial! Take this step aside... and there will always be a place where you can just walk in and meet friends.

Shark, thanks for making a Dutch version. Take good care of your health!

Does the quoted sentence mean I can integrate it with RVMi or nLite, just by adding the exe-file?

It means that the installer doesn't default to unattended.
it does use MSI switches, example; ar9lite_xxx.exe /qb would install it unattendedly.


shark

Shark, Thanks for your quick reply. I'm sorry I still don't understand. What should I do to make it work like an addon?

The usual procedure to perform an unattended installation using the developers distributed installer is to seek
a commandline switch that would perform the installation without any user interaction.

You're in luck, I am the developer. I stated that all MSI switches are accepted by my distributed installer.

For a complete listing of switches supported by the windows installer type; ar9lite_xxx,exe /?

Alternatively, MSI's can have developer designed switches specific to each MSI.
If you have the skills to look into the property table, usually those listed in ALLCAPS are also usable on the commandline as a switch.

oh yeah, you want an addon . . . try the nlite addon section


shark

Thanks for the Brazilian Portuguese language.

0d

I will make English and Spanish releases for future versions. I Will make them when a new version comes out.
If i have the time, maybe i can make them for other languages as well.

Thanks for the info Shark...

Take care and don't take things too seriously to maintain that pressure low.
Regards and good luck.

Thank you, Thanks, THNX... Crack.

ty for the tutorial

Thanks for you work Shark. And success in your personal life

Shark007,

After release 1 of Acrobat 9 Lite, I commented that an item would be added to the event viewer everytime a PDF file was opened complaining about not finding AcroRd32info.exe.

Version 2 has corrected this problem!

Great work!

hi shark,

i'm not able to install the new (german) version silent!
every time when i try to run it with /q /qb /qr or so its just opening msiexec.exe (happens when wrong parameters are added)...

just run the file works but is no longer silent like in the older version.

I'm on Xp Pro SP3 with Installer 4.5

hmmmm, I tested the file, you are correct. I dont know why though. checked the config.txt, all was OK.
I suggest you repackage it yourself, upload it to rapidshare, post the url, and I'll use it to replace the one I have on there now.
btw, in the config file I used "msistub.exe AcroRead.msi"
msistube passes the switch parameters to the msi.
I didnt default it to unattended (with switches) because there are 100's of users out there using this for desktop installations.

(and thanks)


shark

Shark you know you can make a 7zip sfx with optional auto install switches


So all Sereby would need to do is run ar9lite_xxx.exe -ai1[or 2] and it will launch the installer with /qb or /qn

Edit: nm I see you are still using the old 7zip sfx method

hi shark,

i tryed the following sfx header and it works for me now repacked:
- SFX-Header + config file
- Repacked German Lite-Installer (Rapidshare)

Thank you Sereby, your assistance in this matter was greatly appreciated.


shark

msistub is no longer needed if you use the new 7zsd.sfx

do you know if this newer sfx module will pass the commandline parameters to the msi as msistub does?
currently I prefer msistub for this reason. A user can type /? and be informed as to what is available via the commandline

I don't want users trying to figure out what switch does what. This is not released solely for MSFN where users can read about switches.
ai1 .. ai2 do these switches appear and thier use explained when /? is used on the exe with the newer sfx?

1 last thing, can you link to this newer sfx module?


shark

You can add info on the -ai switches but you will have to do this manually, a great example is RogueSpears Java installer. You can use 7zip splitter to decomplile it and look at his config.txt



Here is the link to the new 7zip sfx and you can find 7zip splitter and the CHM on all the new features

Source: http://7zsfx.solta.ru/en/

I tried to install it silently. But when I used " ar9lite_cht.exe /qb-" , the msi swithes help window appeared only!

I decomplied this installer with 7zip , the config.txt was "msistub.exe acroread.msi"

I recomplied using "msistub.exe acroread.msi /qb-!", it stll ended up the same old config.txt.

A year ago when there was nothing known in the English forums about 7zsd.sfx from Igor Pavlov (the script was there orginally in 2005), I've written here a tutorial. A few days after that 7zSD site was translated to English and that makes it populair. But the latest version of 7zSD from Igor Pavlov is from July 14, 2007 (1.2 RC1 build 715), then te code was optimalized with the source code of 7-Zip version 4.49 beta. Now a year later 7-zip is meantime by v4.60 and I saw in the extra binary package that 7zS.sfx and 7zSD.sfx (uses msvcrt.dll) are from august 2008.... so anyone know of the 7zSD from Igor Pavlov still is the best and the official 7zSD now also support more parameters?

same problem (windows installer 4.5)

same here....

Its getting quite obvious that I messed up the installers 'switch' functionality. (somehow)
Silent install IS NOT working for most releases.
I do not have highspeed internet acces so there is little hope I will fix this soon.

If someone (an msfn user with some longegity here) has the time to spare and is capable of repackaging all the releases
and re-upping them to rapidshare I would be greatful.


shark

here are all languages updated with the new header file:

http://sereby.org/downloads/ar9lite/

uploaded to my server because rapidshare is SLOOOOOOW -.-

have fun

awesome!!! thanks man!

So many thanks to Sereby

Thank you sereby!!!

Thanks for updating ar9lite Sereby. Just a heads-up: AVG detects your ar9lite_eng.exe as being infected with Trojan horse Generic10.UZZ The previous version by Shark wasn't detected.

Adobe Reader 9 Lite is not able to open this file:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/3d_pdf_demo.pdf

It gives error on missing "Updater" plugin.

Here is a screenshot:


Hope it can be fixed

Hi, shark!

Adobe Reader 9.0 Russian is released. Could you, please, make Adobe Reader 9.0 Russian Lite?

Many thanks for your work!

I made some tests:
I tried to copy updater.api and updater.ita files from full Adobe Reader 9 installation (I'm using italian version) and the message is fixed but it gives another error window just after with the message

"Impossible to display this document because a plug-in is missing" without specify the plugin name


I tried to copy all the plugins installed with full version, including 3d plugins folder but the message is still present.
Maybe some registry keys are missing...

I can confirm full Adobe Reader open the file correctly without any error message

There are many Russian users at this site.
In fact, I think a Russian site similar to this one also exists. Maybe post my tutorial over there if you dont know how to do it yourself.
The crude step by step tutorial that documents exactly what I do when creating these releases is linked to in the 1st post.
I am non longer able to dedicate the time required to maintain all languages.
I will probably still release the English versions in the future.
All other languages will have to be done by others.

This is a non issue, although it is obviously an issue for you...
To resolve it, use the full version.

By design and documentd by me in the 1st post of this thread
So to help you understand that statement...
Adobe Reader has more than 1 update feature as indicated by the (auto) portion and the ® symbol of the above statement.
'removed' means they do not exist in my releases.

I am not willing to assist you in re-adding removed features.
My suggestion: Use the tutorial to create your own personalized installer with the update features intact.


shark

Hello Shark,
I can understand your point of view but I think there's a basic mistake.

I love your lite version of Adobe Reader because it is faster and lighter than the original one but this hasn't to "damage" program functionality.

With "functionality" I mean the ability to view ALL pdf files correctly like the full version.
If you release a lite version that runs faster but doesn't open all files safely, there's something wrong.

Currently I found a specific file that gives error when opened, a good developer should fix that.
Obviously you can remove all the plugins and files you want (this is one of the reasons it's called "lite") but I think it's a nonsense to remove files if they damage the program.

P.S.
BTW, I red "removed all auto-update features" and I understand the meaning (even if I'm not english mother-tong).
There's no need to be ironic.

Thanks a lot shark for the tutorial! I will try.
Wish you a good health and all the best. Thanks for your time!

I found a solution for the error I described in the previous posts

The problem is not related to updater plugin, this is a false cause.
Adobe asks for it because it doesn't find a .dll in the program folder and wants to update itself online to fix the error.

The problem is very simple: the file "rt3d.dll" is missing and it's needed for documents with graphic or similar datas.

Shark, if you want to accept a suggestion, just don't remove the dll from next lite versions and you will expand the compatibility of your tool in a few steps


Thanks a lot.

@Shark007
Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I made lite version easily. Working perfectly.

Link for the Turkish Lite version:

http://rapidshare.com/files/148712397/ar9lite_tr.exe

File Size : 19,830KB

MD5 : F3A2F4F7E74C41E66920958CCF307F29

Desktop, startup icon removed.

__________________________________________________________________________
Reader_Big_Features / Atmosphere_3D / Reader_Bin_rt3d.dll feature have rt3d.dll.

Atmosphere_3D feature needed to view 3d pdf.

I am very glad to hear you found it easy to follow.
Thanks for providing this information. (for others)


shark

@Shark thanks for you work.

Polish Lite version; shark's tutorial + InstEd + Sereby's SFX-Header & config file

Download Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/148981405/ar9lite_pl.exe.html

Hi.Anyone can add the adobe reader 9 turkish version please.
It just released.That's the link http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/read...Rdr90_tr_TR.exe

If you look about 4 or 5 posts before yours... someone has already posted turkish 9 lite.

TO ALL - as soon as I have some free time I will copy all the newly posted URL's to the 1st post for ease of access
TO ALL PART 2 - thank you to those making Lite versions avaialable for others to use, its apreciated.

Personal note: It just makes me smile to know so many are willing to assist others in thier endevours on the MSFN forums.
I love this community.


shark