{"id":114,"date":"2009-06-10T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-06-10T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T20:02:20","slug":"create-a-standard-pkg-for-acrobat-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/create-a-standard-pkg-for-acrobat-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a standard .pkg for Acrobat Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to patch Acrobat Reader again! And leave it to Adobe to use a patcher app (or Installer Vise, or a downloader, or a some crazy Javascript\/XML\/AIR based installer) to make things hard for mass deployment to be achieved (and no I don&#8217;t think the Deployment Kit for CS4 makes much sense!). <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps soon they&#8217;ll have a full version of Reader available for download in a seemingly standard .pkg file, but don&#8217;t be fooled! If you admin Macs like I do you might have noticed it uses the iNosso plugin to uncompress it&#8217;s payload and it is totally incompatible with ARD&#8217;s Install Package. It just fails.<\/p>\n<p>But fear not, I am a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/s.sudre.free.fr\/Software\/Iceberg.html\">Iceberg<\/a> and it&#8217;s ability to make the painstaking process of installing Adobe apps <strong>so<\/strong> much easier. And I want to share the love. So here take <a href='http:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/adobereader-iceberg.zip'>this.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I put a small how-to in the <a href='http:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/adobereader-iceberg.zip'>zip file<\/a> with a sparse set of instructions and caveats. Basically you install Acrobat Reader in the normal way, install Iceberg, open the iceberg project, and build. You&#8217;ll then have a pkg that ARD can push out.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions &#8212; Google it! ;)<br \/>\n(OK you can leave a comment, but for gawd&#8217;s sake not &#8220;How do I use this?&#8221; &#8212; seriously!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to patch Acrobat Reader again! And leave it to Adobe to use a patcher app (or Installer Vise, or a downloader, or a some crazy Javascript\/XML\/AIR based installer) to make things hard for mass deployment to be achieved (and no I don&#8217;t think the Deployment Kit for CS4 makes much sense!). Perhaps soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-os-x","category-packages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}