[THIN] Re: Adobe Acrobat 6.0
- From: Jeff Durbin <techlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:56:24 +1200
This was posted to the list recently:
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Just thought I'd post some stuff that I've discovered lately...
I read from a posting on the Adobe forums that the Acrotray.exe needs to be
running since that TSR is the thing that let's the PDF creation occur. I
think that the acrotray.exe process calls the acrobat distiller
(acrodist.exe) process, which in turn creates the PDF. From the Acrobat
forums, it was said that if Adobe made the acrotray.exe into a service then
things would work right.
As a proof of concept, I used the scheduling service within Windows 2003 to
load the acrotray.exe process into the system context. I used the following
command to do this...
at hh:mm /interactive "c:\program files\adobe\acrobat
6.0\distillr\acrotray.exe"
...where hh:mm is the hour and time when you want the process to be started.
For me, I just set the hh:mm to be one minute from now, so the acrotray
process would start immediately. After watching the task manager to make
sure the acrotray.exe process started and was owned by the system, I then
created a PDF. Presto! I didn't receive any errors or lockups, and I then
received a prompt, within my session(!), that the PDF was created properly.
I was NOT logged in at the console and the above was all done through a
terminal services session. I was able to do this multiple times without
failure.
Hope this helps. I'm planning on rolling out Windows 2003 for my own users
and this was a major stumbling block for myself as well. I'm planning on
writing this up on my website for others to check out...
-M
http://terminal.servebeer.com
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I find it hard to believe that an app vendor would ignore server-based
computing so blatantly. I hope the natural selection process of the free
market will eventually weed them out of the software gene pool.
JD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Minero Hector B DLVA
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 May 2004 5:13 a.m.
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Adobe Acrobat 6.0
>
> How are people getting Acrobat 6.0 to work on Terminal Server?
>
> I can't seem to get Distiller to work.
>
>
> Please....... If you are currently using Acrobat 6.0
> (with Distiller)
> with no problems, share the information.
>
> Thanks,
>
> _________________________________
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavlo Ignatusha [mailto:pignatusha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:53 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Adobe Acrobat 6.0
>
>
> Mikael
> You can install both Acrobat Reader 6.0 (free) and Adobe
> Acrobat 6.0 in your farm.
>
> Publish Adobe Acrobat for group of 3 people, limit 1 instance
> per user and total 3 instances in your farm (this way your
> licenses will always be right). Then publish Acrobat Reader
> for everybody.
>
> I think you can further secure your pdf creation by assigning
> NTFS permissions to pdf printer that is installed with Adobe
> Acrobat 6.0.
>
> HTH
>
> Pavlo Ignatusha
> Systems and Network Coordinator
> Pembroke General Hospital
> Tel. (613) 732-3675 ext.6150
> Fax. (613) 732-9986
> www.pemgenhos.org
>
> "All that matters is love and work" - Sigmund Freud.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Mikael Johnsen
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 12:53 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Adobe Acrobat 6.0
>
>
> Help I have tried for 2+ hours to install Adobe Acrobat 6.0.
> The problem is that only 3 people should be able to make
> pdf's. The others should only be able to read pdf files Please help!
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
> Mikael Johnsen
> Systemadministrator / System Administrator
>
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> Email: mailto:mjo@xxxxxx, Homepage: http://www.pbj.dk
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