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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 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. In order to install Foxit Reader on your system, you are required to accept the terms and conditions of Foxit’s License Agreement.
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 installed. FX_CREATOREXCELADDIN - MS Excel toolbar add-in to create PDFs by just one click. This feature requires FX_CREATOR to be installed. FX_CREATORPPTADDIN - MS PPT toolbar add-in to create PDFs by just one click. This feature requires FX_CREATOR to be installed. FX_CONNECTEDPDF - ConnectedPDF plugin which is used to create, share, protect, and track ConnectedPDF documents. INSTALLLOCATION Specifies the folder where products will be installed.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration CPDF_DISABLE Disables the ConnectedPDF features by setting the value to “1”. NOTINSTALLUPDATE Do not install “FoxitReaderUpdate.exe” by setting the value to “1”. This will prevent Foxit Reader from being updated from within the software. Command-line Examples: 1. Silently install the application (no user interaction) to folder "C:\Program Files\Foxit Software": msiexec /i "Foxit Reader.msi" /quiet INSTALLLOCATION="C:\Program Files\ Foxit Software " 2.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration the goal of central management of a group of applications. Users can configure Foxit Reader easily through Group Policy. Please refer to the instructions below for details. Personal Computer Setting Foxit Reader offers two types of group policy template: .adm and .admx. Different types are compatible with different operation systems, but have the same settings. The template of .adm file type is compatible with Windows XP and later, while .
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration See Set Plugins as an example for other options are configured in the same fashion. Choose Foxit Reader 8.3 > Plugins. Double-click Remove Plugins to open the dialog box. Select Enabled, check the submenus to be removed in the Options, and click OK or Apply. The corresponding submenu items will then be removed from Foxit Reader. Note: If you select all the submenus in the Options and confirm the configuration, all of the submenus will be removed.
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 Plugins. 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 > Plugins Remove Specific Plugins Input the plugin name which needs to be removed. Only applications with .fpi extensions can be removed from Foxit Reader. Remove Plugins Remove selected plugins. Foxit Reader > Preferences 'About Foxit Reader' Dialog Set the new contents in 'About Foxit Reader' dialog.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Foxit Reader > Ribbon Hide the selected button items in Ribbon Mode. Foxit Reader > RMS > Preferences Add ‘protected’ to the name of encrypted files Append “(protected)” to the end of the file name of encrypted files. Foxit Reader > RMS > Preferences Encrypt Metadata Encrypt document metadata. This disables the setting in 'Preferences > RMS Setting'.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration format Foxit Reader > ConnectedPDF > Preferences Share usage data when using Connected features Enable this option to disable sharing usage data when using ConnectedPDF features. Using XML Editor Besides GPO Configuration, users can also configure Foxit Reader with XML Configuration. XML configuration takes precedence over GPO configuration.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration 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 default XML file of Foxit Reader.
Foxit Reader Deployment and Configuration Note: 1. The customized MST file needs to be deployed with the original MSI file. 2. Foxit Setup Customization Tool is only available for Foxit Reader 7.3 and newer versions. To ensure successful customization, the version of the Foxit Setup Customization Tool should be same as that of Foxit Reader.
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