I have an M$ Access application which automatically generates PDF documents, attaches them to emails and sends them out. Twice now users have complained that the system was broken, it wouldn't create documents and send the emails. Each time there was an unnoticed message notifying the user that a new update to pdf creator was available, and did they want to download it? Once the message was cleared the automatic process ran successfully.
Is there any way to turn off this 'new version available' message? I searched for this issue and the closest I came was mention of a registry setting for "UpdateInterval", but I don't have that registry entry.
There is a setting for how often to check for updates in program options under 'General settings 2' (sorry, I'm using non-English version, not sure how it actually is in English). Does this not help? I have it set to 'Never' and I've never seen the new version notification on my PC.
For our internal use, I put up an update.txt file with the version number we have deployed to our own website and using SquidGuard I redirect all requests for http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/update.txt to http://oursite.com/pdfcreator/update.txt. This solves the problem even for these computers where this setting is accidentally left on. Our users don't have administrator rights on their PCs, so they can't do anything about the message anyway.
I use PDFCreator via COM and it would be really handy to have an option in the COM interface to turn the update checker off. Or maybe there already is one and I'm too dumb to find it.
Copy the above text and save it to a .txt file, then change the file association from ".txt" to ".reg" mannually, double click the .reg file, click "Yes" , this will make your installed PDFCreator no longer check for update.
That works for individual users - but I have ~7,000 users who might log on to the server.
Doing this for each one would be a problem; I could change the log on scripts to include this, but this would involve a non-trivial amount of change management paperwork.
Is there a reg hack that can be used on a per machine basis, not per user?
I just use PDFCreator on my personal PC. I don't have such large scale corporate environment software deployment experience.
Some previous posts in this forum have long hoped for a .msi installer that can do such job.
If you want to automate the PDFCreator deployment process on a corporate environment, a .msi installer package is the best solution. You may need installaware or installshield to build a .msi installer package.
The problem is when you have pdfcreator installed on a server - a couple of dozen/hundred/thousand users can log on... changing each users registry by hand would be a nightmare.
Better to just change a server setting, if possible.
I'm now going to hit the technical specialists with a clue-by-four - it's their fault that it's the standard install is used on the 60-odd TS servers, rather then the server install.
Looks like they're going to spend a weekend re-installing this on the farm.