PDF file association changes to use Acrobat after Acrobat installed

[simbur999]

Hi,

I have packaged a silent installation of Acrobat X Professional using the Customisation wizard.  We have to make Reader the default viewer (without using a script after the install).  No matter which option I select for the default viewer in the customisation tool (as shown below), Acrobat X Professional becomes the default viewer.  I am trying to add or modify the installer database table so that it leaves the current association with Reader.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Simon

[Dpakch · Accepted solution]

Hi Simon,

Try please this.

Msiexec /i AcroPro.msi IW_DEFAULT_VERB=Read TRANSFORMS=Acropro.mst /qb

This should work.

Regards,

[simbur999]

Hi,

That has done the trick, thanks!  I found yesterday I could also use LEAVE_PDFOWNERSHIP=YES on the command line to achieve the result, however we wanted to add to the Property table of the MST.  In the case of LEAVE_PDFOWNERSHIP=YES this did not seem to work, but with IW_DEFAULT_VERB=Read it is working well.

Thanks again,

Simon