It is possible to customize the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional/Standard Macintosh Installers.

Issue
I need to install Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional/Standard for Macintosh for a large user base from a server. This installation should take care of the following items:

-Serial Number

-Prompt for Registration

-User Name

-Company Information

Solution 1
Acrobat can be pre-serialized by the addition of a file containing the registration information to the MacOS folder of the Acrobat application. If a file named userreg is created with a resource fork containing 5 'STR ' resources with resource IDs from 1000-1004, it can be used in place of the registration dialogs. The following information describes the file:

'STR ' 1000 is the name field.
'STR ' 1001 is the company field.
'STR ' 1002 is the serial number field.
'STR ' 1003 is a UTF-8 encoded copy of the name field.
'STR ' 1004 is a UTF-8 encoded copy of the company field.


You need to open the file in a Mac resource editor like ResEdit or Resorcerer in order to see the
resource fork. Appropriately modified copies of this file could be distributed to sites which
require preserialization for large installations of Acrobat.

Solution 2

Acrobat can be pre-serialized by the addition of a file called the "Adobe Registration Database" containing the registration information from to the following location:

/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/

1. Create a shell script to copy the installation folder from the server location to the client location using the 'sudo' command.
Note: The customer is responsible for providing the account information for using this command.

2. In addition add the commands for the shell script to copy the "Adobe Registration Database" file from the server location to the users location using the 'sudo' command.

WARNING: DO NOT COPY OVER AN EXISTING FILE CALLED "Adobe Registration Database" OTHERWISE THE SERIAL NUMBER INFORMATION FOR ALL OF YOUR INSTALLED ADOBE APPLICATION WILL BE DELETED.


2a. If your users already have Adobe applications installed or you want to create the "Adobe Registration Database" on the fly then have the shell script edit or create the "Adobe Registration Database" with vi or some other terminal editor.

Add the following information for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional:

[Acrobat 6.0 Pro]
SERIAL=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[Adobe Acrobat 6.0]
PRODREG=ADBE [User]
COMPAN=My Company Inc.
COMPANY=My Company Inc.
COMPANY_UTF8=My Company Inc.
NAME=My Company Inc.
NAME_UTF8=My Company Inc.

Add the following information for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard:

[Acrobat 6.0 Base]
SERIAL=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[Adobe Acrobat 6.0]
PRODREG=ADBE [User]
COMPAN=My Company Inc.
COMPANY=My Company Inc.
COMPANY_UTF8=My Company Inc.
NAME=My Company Inc.
NAME_UTF8=My Company Inc.

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