This functionality is provided for software developers to distribute the end user version of PDF-XChange to their software clients either as a standalone installation – or perhaps more commonly wrapped within their own installation executable.
The install may be run from the command line by the user or silently and as part of a developers own installation, called with certain switches to tailor the installer behavior. The Switches are listed and described in the following table.
The string below maybe called from the developer's installer—or by a batch file (.bat) created by the developer—an example of which is provided with the full SDK installation supplied to developers.
The installation executable you should distribute is available directly from the web site: http://www.tracker-software.com/PDFX5SA_sm.zip.
The example batch file supplied with the complete SDK installation for Developers is called SDK_API_RunInstall.bat and is installed in the main help folder.
The End User installer can install PDF-XChange to many workstations - it may be useful to be able to silently install without the need for any user interaction. This allows you to execute the install either from the command line with certain parameters and switches applied - or create a batch file (.bat file) and distribute this with the main installation executable for your users to run directly - alleviating the need for the System Administrator to visit each user and install.
Example
Here is an example of a valid command line, this one using all available switches. Note that most of the items on this command line are optional; see Parameters below for more information. Also note that this sample line has been artificially broken into separate lines for purposes of readability; in reality, this is just one long line of text.
C:\vm\pdf\PDFX5SA_sm.exe
/VERYSILENT
/NORESTART
/COMPONENTS="pdfSaver,PDF-XChange driver, Help,Languages"
/DIR="C:\Program Files\PDF-XChange 5\"
"/UserName:I am"
"/Organization:Favorite Customer"
"/UserEmail:my@email.com"
"/InstallProfile:C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Templates\my Profile1.pxp"
"/AutoUnload:nn"
