Disabling the Acrobat Online features durring installation.

Issue
You are installing Acrobat Reader 5.x or Acrobat 5.x full product to an install base and want to disable the Acrobat Online features during an installation. These features include the buttons and menu items for Create Adobe PDF Online, Search Adobe PDF Online, and Paper Capture Online.

Solution
Create a batch file (*.bat) and launch it as a sub-launch of AEIT or the ABCPY.INI file.

You would use the DOS 'MOVE' command to move the WHA.api file from the \Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Plug_ins folder to the \Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Optional\ folder in the Acrobat Installation folder using the following syntax:

Note: Acrobat Reader 5.x and Acrobat 5.x full product install to the operating system drive letter by default.

@ECHO OFF
 
MOVE ["%System%\pathname\WHA.api"]  ["%System%\pathname\"]


OR

@ECHO OFF
 
MOVE ["[Drive Letter]:\pathname\WHA.api"]  ["[Drive Letter]:\pathname\"]


If the install system drive letter is known, then you can specify the drive letter that is appropriate to your installation. For example the default installation directory of Acrobat with it's system on the C: drive is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\. Then you would use the following path in your batch file

"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Plug_ins\WHA.api"


If your system install system drive letter is not known, but you kept the default install location then you can create the batch file using '%System%' to determine the location of the system drive letter and then the path statement.

"%System%\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Plug_ins\WHA.api"


If your system install drive is not known, you changed the default install directory, but the installation is still on the system drive, then you can create the batch file using '%System%' to determine the location of the drive letter and then the path statement.

"%System%\[pathname]\WHA.api"

Then you can sub-launch the batch file from the Adobe installer using AEIT, or you can manually edit Abcpy.ini. The section in Abcpy.ini would look like this if the batch file were located in the same directory and named move.bat :

[Launches]
NumberOfLaunches=1
Launch1Platform=ALL
Launch1Language=ALL

Launch1Type=EXE
Launch1Program=move.bat
Launch1CmdLine=
Launch1ChangeDir=

Launch1Wait=YES

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