Suppress the EULA, registration prompts, and the Getting Started window.

Remove previous versions of Acrobat and Reader.

Optimise the behaviour of the installer by including silent installation, multilingual, and custom setup choices.

The Customization Wizard should be installed to an administrative workstation and it will allow you to create a custom Windows Installer transform that can configure the Reader installation, including settings to: An FTP site is also available - Adobe FTP site. Otherwise you can use this direct download link: Adobe Customization Wizard X. The Adobe Customization Wizard X should be available from here - Adobe Customization Wizard X. The Customization Wizard X hasn’t changed much since the Customization Wizard 9, so if you have experience deploying Adobe Reader 8 or Reader 9, you’ll be comfortable customising and deploying the new version. To start customising Reader before deploying, you’ll need access to the Adobe Customization Wizard.

For anyone who’s attempted deployment of the CS products would probably consider this a good thing. Unfortunately Adobe doesn’t use the same installer across all of their products - the installers for the Acrobat products are different to the Creative Suite products. To apply for the license go to the Adobe Runtimes / Reader Distribution License Agreement. The same license can be used for distributing Flash player and Adobe AIR. Obtaining a license is simple, you’ll just need to answer a few questions such as the number of copies, how you will distribute Reader, which platforms and some information on your company including contact information. Licensing Your DeploymentĪlthough Adobe Reader is free you’ll need to agree to and obtain a license to distribute it in your own environment. Note: These instructions are based on the US English version of Reader, so you may need to adjust some specifics to suit your environment and language. For a Reader XI version of this document see: Adobe Reader XI DeploymentĪdobe Reader X is here and with the new protected mode feature to improve security you should be considering your deployment plans now.

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