How to silently install CutePDF Writer and GPL Ghostscript. Here's what I did to get Cutepdf to install in a almost silent manner (it displays a console window briefly during the GPLGS install) Using this technique also allows. Best Motion Capture Software For Kinect 360.
Note CutePDF Writer 2.3 is a freely available PDF creation utility. You can download it from. It requires two downloads.
The first download is the CuteWriter.exe which sets up a PostScript print queue on the machine. The second download is GhostScript which is already available as an MSI. Check the AppDeploy.com package entry for GhostScript. It's not hard to set up your own MSI package for the Writer portion. Note This was performed with version 2.7 of the free writer First Download the current version of Ghost Script from as the standard one you download from cutepdf is now 4 years old.
At time of writing 8.61 is available for windows. Goto link below for the most recent version. You can silently install with the following setupgs.exe '%ProgramFiles% gs'. Now download cutewriter.exe. When this application begins the installation it extras file to your temp folder in C: documents and settings usernameEither you have to be quick and copy the files out or use sysinternals Process Explorer to suspend the install while you copy the files. This will provide you among others with setup32.exe and the annoying HTML file that loads at the end of their silent install.
Delete the HTML file and then run this setup32.exe with the following and you have a silent install for cutePDF setup32.exe /cpw12112006 This is what the application is loaded with by the installer to make it silent. This will now install silently without the need for closing the html window. Note I packaged CutePDF Writer 2.6 as follows. (1) I Downloaded GPL Ghostscript 8.15 via the Acro Software site and repackaged it using Macrovision Adminstudio in snapshot mode eliminating any obvious rubbish. Please note that GPL Ghostscript is very different to AFPL Ghostscript in both its licence and program. GPL Ghostscript is the version recommended by Acro Software.
I found that repackaging GPL Ghostscript as an MSI was much easier than attemting to use the native MSI AFPL Ghostscript mentioned earlier. The AFPL version seemed to work okay but only produced 0 byte outputs which are unreadable via Adobe Reader. I am sure that the native MSI AFPL version can be made to work but in my case it did not. (2) I then downloaded Acro CutePDF Writer 2.6 from and repackaged it using Macrovision Adminstudio in snapshot mode, again eliminating any obvious rubbish. The result was that it just worked! A reboot was required for the CutePDF printer to be available to end users though.
The reboot is not a problem to me at the moment though although it will be be in the future. Iso Aluminium Designations. I believe that this problem is associated with the printer spooler issues mentioned previously and that I will be able to work around this via my deployment mechanism which is Microsofts SMS 2003. Note I created a MSI using the above notes by jphillips and BEPhipps and it worked perfect.
The only thing I noticed was the install puts PSCRIPT.HLP in the folder C: Windows System32 spool drivers w32x86 3 so I left it there and made the following additions and changes to the INF file shown below; [SourceDisksNames.x86] ' added the following entry 2 = 'CutePDF3',PSCRIPT.HLP,,3,' [SourceDisksFiles] ' Changed the following entry from 1 to 2 PSCRIPT.HLP = 2 The rundll32 command line was added at the end of the MSI after InstallFinalize. Note I installed CutePDF with Group Policy and a dos start up script. You can unzip Ghostwriter and run the setup.exe from bat file without any problems. Run the CuteWriter xxx.exe with a /silent switch. It's not exactly what I would call silent but at least no user interaction is required. The final bit is to add a 'killtask /IM iexplore.exe' and 'killtask /IM firefox.exe' at the end of the script after forcing a 3 seconds delay. I think CutePDF is a fantastic product.