[Casper] Adobe Acrobat 8 package

[Daniel Farnworth]

Just livening this one up again to offer an alternative solution...

In the files 

/Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ 8\ Professional/Adobe\ Acrobat\
Professional.app/Contents/MacOS/SHInit.xml

and

/Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ 8\ Professional/Acrobat\
Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/SHInit.xml

Comment out the line that refers to the name of the self healing config
file.

I.E. 

Replace:

    <key>selfhealingfilename</key><string>AcroENUPro80SelfHeal.xml</string>
with 
    
<!--<key>selfhealingfilename</key><string>AcroENUPro80SelfHeal.xml</string>-
->

and

    <key>selfhealingfilename</key><string>AcroENUDist80SelfHeal.xml</string>
with
    
<!--<key>selfhealingfilename</key><string>AcroENUDist80SelfHeal.xml</string>
-->

Respectively.

This prevents self-healing from running at all, which at our site at least
is preferable...

Hope this helps
Dan




On 15/02/2007 16:11, "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> wrote:

> On 2/15/07 9:17 AM, "eric.winkelhake at us-resources.com"
> <eric.winkelhake at us-resources.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Just give the user read write access to the self healing files inside
>> Application Support, that's always fixed the issue for me.
> 
> Part of the problem is that a default install is not complete until the
> application itself actually runs the first time and tries to add self-heal
> files to /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat. (Not all of them are
> there prior to first launch.) This is when you're being prompted for an
> admin name and password. This location shouldn't be writable by Standard
> users. Adobe is breaking Apple's rules.
> 
> We've found that using some advice from previous postings here (or maybe a
> different list?) that the following works for us in Acrobat versions 6.x,
> 7.x and 8.x.
> 
> 1. Install all versions of Acrobat that may need to be packaged but do not
> launch any of them.
> 
> 2. For both the Acrobat and Distiller applications for each version,
> right-click the application --> Show Package Contents.
> 
> 3. Open the Mac OS folder.
> 
> 4. Open all the files with SelfHeal in the name (usually two files for each
> app) with a text editor.
> 
> 5. Use Find/Replace to change all "YES" to "NO".
> 
> 6. Use Find/Replace to change all "REQUIRED" to "NO".
> 
> 7. Save the files.
> 
> We've found we can make these modifications either before or after packaging
> and get the same desired results. Keep in mind that these changes disable
> all Acrobat self-healing, but in my opinion that's a good thing.
> 
> bill

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