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Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Contents Contents .................................................................................................................. III Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 About the User Manual .................................................................................................... 1 About Foxit Reader (MSI).........................................................
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Introduction About the User Manual Welcome to Foxit Reader (MSI) -- your right choice to view and print PDF documents! Foxit Reader (MSI) is developed on the basis of Foxit Reader (EXE) , but it extends the usability and performance of viewing and editing of Foxit Reader (EXE). This User Manual introduces the deployment and configuration of Foxit Reader. Please follow the instructions below for details.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Verified as Citrix Ready® with Citrix XenApp® 7.6 Recommended Minimum Hardware for Better Performance 1.3 GHz or faster processor 512 MB RAM (Recommended: 1 GB RAM or greater) 1 GB of available hard drive space 1024*768 screen resolution How to Install? Double-click the installation file and you will see the Install Wizard pop up. Click Next to continue.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Choose one of the setup types as needed: A. Typical –installs all features by default but requires more disk space. B. Custom—allows users to choose the features to be installed. For Typical setup, just click Install. For Custom setup, do the following: A) Click Browse to change the installation directory of the PDF Viewer plug-in.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration B) Click Disk Usage to check the disk space available for the selected features. C) Check the options you want to install and click Next to continue. D) Select the additional tasks you would like to perform while installing Foxit Reader, click Next and then Install to begin the installation.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Finally, a message will appear to inform you the successful installation. Click Finish to complete the installation.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration For detailed information on msiexec.exe options, required parameters, and optional parameters, type “msiexec” on the command line or visit Microsoft TechNet help center. Public Properties of the Foxit Reader MSI installation package. Foxit Reader installation properties supplement the standard MSI public properties to give administrators greater control over the installation of the application.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration FX_CREATORPPTADDIN - MS PPT toolbar add-in to create PDFs by just one click. This feature requires FX_CREATOR to be installed. INSTALLLOCATION Specifies the folder where products will be installed. MAKEDEFAULT Default value of "1", Foxit Reader will be set as default application for opening PDF files. VIEW_IN_BROWSER Default value of "1", Foxit Reader will be configured to open PDF files inside browsers.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration msiexec /i "Foxit Reader.msi" /quiet ADDLOCAL="FX_PDFVIEWER" 3. Force an installation to overwrite the same or higher version of Foxit Reader: msiexec /i "Foxit Reader.msi" REMOVENEWVERSION="1" 4. Remove registry and user data when performing silent uninstallation: msiexec /x "Foxit Reader.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration menu. In the opened dialogue box, add the group policy template of Foxit Reader (Foxit Reader.adm). The Foxit Reader template will appear in the left navigation pane and you can set its template preferences. For .admx file, put the .admx file in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions and do the setting. The .admx file should be used in combination with an .adml file. And the .adml file should be put in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\language.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Note: Group Policy setting includes computer configuration and user configuration. Computer configuration takes precedence over user configuration. The application will use the computer configuration if both the computer and user configure a specific function at the same time. GPO Deployment (for Server) Create GPO Management If you already have an Active Directory domain and organizational unit configured, please skip to “Apply the Foxit Template” section.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration In the opened New Object-Organization Unit dialogue box, type the unit name (For this example, we have named the unit “qa”) and click OK. Right click the created organization unit “qa” and choose New > User in the right-click menu.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration For this example, we have named the user “King”.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Console and right-click the created organization unit “qa” and choose Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here. If you cannot find the Group Policy Management in Administration Tools, please install the application package GPMC.MSI. You can download the package by clicking the link http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21895.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Apply the Foxit Template Type the GPO name in the New GPO dialogue box and click OK. Right-click the new GPO and choose Edit in the right-click menu to open Group Policy Editor.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Right-click the Template Management and choose Add/Remove Templates to add Foxit Reader.adm. Please refer to Set Template Preference. For configuring options, please refer to Example: Set the Page Display. GPO Items The following table shows the deployable options and their functions in GPO to speed up your working process.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Items in GPO Template Folder Path Item Description Foxit Reader > Toolbar Customize Toolbar Select the tools to be displayed in the default toolbar. Remove Buttons Delete buttons from the default toolbar. To remove the toolbar, remove all the buttons. Foxit Reader > Menu Foxit Reader > Plugins Remove selected menus from the menu list. The selected menu will be removed once all sub-menus have been removed.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Foxit Reader > Preferences Enable Safe Reading Mode Change the settings of Safe Reading Mode. Foxit Reader > Preferences Toolbar Mode Change the settings of Toolbar Mode. Foxit Reader > Preferences Default Toolbar Change settings of the toolbars: Modification’ or ‘Hide Toolbar’. Foxit Reader > Preferences Enable The Link For User Manual Enable this option to change the link of User Manual to the local link you want.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Preferences Foxit Reader > RMS > Preferences Dynamic Revocation Turn on the dynamic revocation feature in the client. Revocation is a mechanism that revokes a PDF document that has already been issued. The primary purpose of revocation is to prevent entities that are no longer trusted from participating in an RMS system.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration (the version number should be 7.x.x). Set the preferences in the corresponding menus. For example, choose Preferences Tab > click Start Page on the left panel > check Hide Start Page to remove the start page from Foxit Reader. Click Save to save the configured XML file. Note: (Alternatively) You can configure relevant items by XML Editor directly, then export and save the XML file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\ProfStore to replace the
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