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deanyama
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May 23, 2011
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CS 5.5 and Acrobat

  • May 23, 2011
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I have Acrobat X as a part of CS Design Premium 5.5, and I'd like to use the Customization Wizard to control the options.  Since 5.5 now includes Acrobat as part of the installer, I can't control the options, only whether it's installed or not.  Running the Customization Wizard on the extracted Acrobat (acropro.msi) does not allow me to use the CS 5.5 serial number.  I'm stuck now with a choice of rolling out a full install of Acrobat (which I don't want), or no Acrobat at all.  They seemed to have left out the needs of the enterprise in the latest release, or there's some update to the Application Manager forthcoming to address this issue.   Any guidance you may have would be appreciated.  Have you deployed CS 5.5 with custom Acrobat settings?

Thanks in advance,

-Danny

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Seattle_User
Seattle_User
Participating Frequently
August 9, 2011

If anyone is still monitoring this thread, I'm wondering if you've run into AAMEE 2.0 appearing to include Acrobat X Pro in the installer window (I see the icon and checkbox and it is selected), but after the package MSI is run, there's no Acrobat. What's not fully clear to me from reading this thread is whether the suite serial number I have should *never* be entered through AAMEE if we plan to deploy Acrobat, or only if we plan to do further customizations to Acrobat after it's been built in the AAMEE MSI?

EnterpriseHelp
EnterpriseHelp
Inspiring
August 9, 2011

AAMEE doesn't support Acrobat. You can (and must) deploy Acrobat separately. Customize it with the Wizard and deploy via your favorite method as described in the Acrobat Admin Guide. You should not use a serial for Acrobat deployments included with the Suite. So . . . :

  1. Deploy the suite via AAMEE with the suite’s serial number.
  2. Deploy Acrobat separately.

Read this blog and get the installation documentation: http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2011/01/aamee-and-the-suites.html

Ben

Seattle_User
Seattle_User
Participating Frequently
August 9, 2011

Ben, I am thoroughly confused then. The link you sent says that AAMEE 1.2 won't support Acrobat installation, but this link (http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2011/05/aamee-2-0-and-ausst-2-0-live.html) says that AAMEE 2.0 will support it in CS5.5...? The odd thing is that Acrobat is a selectable item in the list of applications when putting together my package in AAMEE 2.0 and I have selected it...but it never installs.

Am I missing something bigger?

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mark30
Participating Frequently
June 24, 2011

I don't understand why the Acrobat customization wizard can be so easy and intuitive, but AAMEE is do difficult. All I really want to do is create an installer that holds the serial number and suppresses the EULA, etc. I still want a double-click installer to run from a network share, but AAMEE doesn't seem to provide that. Or am I missing something?

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jackb101
Participating Frequently
June 27, 2011

no you are not missing anything. the whole thing is a pain.

AAMEE does work.. but not for Acrobat. it creates export packages for Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign etc that you can install.

if you have one of the create suites with Acrobat included makes sure you install Acrobat before you install the Photoshop etc packages or Acroabt won't be correctly licienced.

whoever came up with this instillation plan has obviously never rolled out software before!

EnterpriseHelp
EnterpriseHelp
Inspiring
May 23, 2011

AAMEE doesn't support Acrobat. You can (and must) deploy Acrobat separately. Customize it with the Wizard and deploy via your favorite method as descibed in the Acrobat Admin Guide. I don't have the answer to the license question at the moment.

http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2011/01/aamee-and-the-suites.html

Ben

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deanyamaAuthor
Participant
May 23, 2011

Ben,

Thanks for responding.  I've seen your replies in other threads and your link that "AAMEE doesn't support Acrobat", and I'm not suggesting that it does.  What I'm requesting is information from Adobe or others on something that IS supported.  The previous workflow of using AAMEE for the Suite and the CW for Acrobat does NOT work with 5.5.  With 5.0 Adobe provided a separate serial number for Acrobat 9.  That serial number is now supposed to be the Suite serial number in 5.5, but the CW won't take it.  It gives an "Invalid serial number."

For reference, this poster is having the same issue.

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deanyamaAuthor
Participant
May 24, 2011

UPDATE...

AAMEE 2.0 does now support Acrobat X as noted here.  I had assumed I was using 2.0, but it somehow didn't install properly the first time.  I hadn't noticed that the version info in the bottom left of AAMEE hadn't updated.  Acrobat X Pro now shows in the list of applications.

Once you've created the deployment, you can edit the AcroPro.msi using the ACWX.  On page 38 of the newer Enterprise Deployment Guide, it says to use this command line in Windows:

msiexec.exe /i AcroPro.msi INSTALLDIR="[INSTALLDIR]\Acrobat 10.0" EULA_ACCEPT=YES REGISTRATION_SUPPRESS=YES SUITEMODE=1 TRANSFORMS=[YourModifications].mst INSTALLLEVEL=101 AS_DISABLE_LEGACY_COLOR=1 IGNOREAAM=1 /qn

However, be aware of the following:

  • The deployment guide says EULA_ACCEPT=NO which I changed to EULA_ACCEPT=YES.  This prevents the EULA prompt.
  • Don't provide a Serial Number in the Wizard.  Doing so will cause the Acrobat installation to fail.
  • Not all settings seem to apply.  I tried starting with the en_US.mst, but that didn't help either.  Here's what I found:
    • I removed a lot of the PDFMaker plugins, but they were installed anyway.  :-(
    • Icon changes (removed some, moved some) did work.

Hope that helps,

-Danny

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