Sean Crookston » Adobe Acrobat http://www.seancrookston.com/blog Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:46:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 How To ThinApp Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 http://www.seancrookston.com/blog/2010/08/04/how-to-thinapp-adobe-acrobat-professional-9/ http://www.seancrookston.com/blog/2010/08/04/how-to-thinapp-adobe-acrobat-professional-9/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:00:56 +0000 Sean Crookston http://www.seancrookston.com/blog/?p=212

Adobe Acrobat Professional is an application that presents some limitations to what can be virtualized. There is no way to virtualize a printer driver and as result while the Application itself can be virtualized, the Adobe PDF Printer cannot.

The solution?

  1. Capture the software as you would any other ThinApp, but remove the Adobe PDF Printer before completing the capture process. If you do still need the Adobe PDF Printer, you can install that component to the base of your workstation or View master image.
  2. Make sure Acrobat is not set to auto-update after applying the latest security and application updates from Adobe.
  3. Lastly remove all unnecessary Adobe items in Startup .

ThinApp is a very flexible solution, but it is presently not possible for ThinApp or comparable software to package Drivers, COM Plus objects, Network DCOM objects, and Windows Components such as IIS or DNS servers.

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