Solution Definition

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly every application. To distrbute this PDF Creator I used the following script recipe. Before I started I used the SAVEINF command line parameter to record my setup options.

Requirements

• Download http://www.pdfforge.org/download

Script

PDFCreator-1_2_0_setup.inf – the setup file provides most defaults but most important setting is Toolbar is set to 0. Otherwise the pdfforge Toolbar will be installed.

 [Setup] Lang=english Dir=C:\Program Files\PDFCreator Group=PDFCreator NoIcons=0 SetupType=custom Components=program,ghostscript,comsamples,helpfiles,helpfiles\english,languages,languages\english Tasks=desktopicon,desktopicon\common,winexplorer Printername=PDFCreator ServerInstallation=0 Win9xPrinterdriver=0 WinNtPrinterdriver=0 Win2k32bitPrinterdriver=0 Win2k64bitPrinterdriver=0 Toolbar=0 

PDFCreator-1_2_0_setup.cmd – I included the UpdateInterval registry setting for HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive. It is a user setting but with Default User or with GPO preferences you can apply this setting to all users to disable the automatic updates of PDFCreator.

 PDFCreator-1_2_0_setup.exe /ForceInstall /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /LOADINF="PDFCreator-1_2_0_setup.inf" reg add "HKCU\Software\PDFCreator\Program" /v UpdateInterval /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f 

References

• http://www.pdfforge.org/content/setup-command-line-parameters
• http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=2036