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PageMaker 6.5 Install Notes

Typical Ranting by Weave

Reference Web Sites

• Adobe web site
• Adobe Customer Support Web Page
• How to organize Font Files Using ATM Deluxe for NT
• Top Support Issues
• How to use Pagemaker 6.5 without ATM manager
• ATM Lite for NT 4.0

Installation Diary and Observations

• Trying a test install. Adding every component except ODBC and Quicktime. Setup claims it'll take 67 megs.
• Hmm, Acrobat got installed. Don't remember that in check list. (We don't need it, it's packaged in a separate sysdiff file).
• Ah, never mind. It's the distiller, not the reader. Still, we'll have to test whether this can install or is dependent on installing the acrobat reader sysdiff file we made before.
• Sigh, it didn't create program group icons during the install.
• Changing any defaults as user causing an error at exit when it tries to save the defaults file.
• Acrobat distiller refuses to start at all.
• Registry Key PM65Defaults may be modifiable so it points to F:\
• Changing default drive in shortcut seems to be enough to get file open and save boxes to default to F:\
• The reg .txt file in pagemaker directory contains registry entries to replace missing ones in the registry. The key (no pun intended) here is "missing." To change the PM65Defaults key, you actually need to modify the registry itself. This should be done right after install, before sysdiff. Also, change it in the .txt file to be safe.
• 16sep98: Spell checking doesn't work. Turns out a file must exist in pm65/Rsrc/Linguist/Prx/USenglsh named ALDUSN.MSP. If this file doesn't exist, PM wants to create it. But users don't have rights to that directory. It *seems* if you create it as an Administrator, then make it r/o, spell checking works. That complicates install steps of course.. :-(

Installation Steps

1. Install a fresh station with netscape and acrobat options set
2. Run AUTORUN.EXE on CD
   1. Choose Custom install
   2. Install U.S. Dictionaries
   3. Postscript printer descriptions
   4. Add all filters (can never have enough!)
   5. Add all plugins (ditto)
   6. Install color libraries, Tutorial, Extras, Acrobat distiller
   7. Do NOT install ODBC and Apple Quicktime
   8. Install all HP printer descriptions (why not?)
3. Start Fonts control panel
   1. Install New Font, browse to {cdrom}:\pm65\atm40\psfonts and install all fonts, converting to True Type
4. mkdir %systemroot%\profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Pagemaker
5. Create a program icon shortcut to pagemaker executable, set current directory to F:\
6. Edit c:\pm65\pm65reg.txt file, set to F:\\PM65.CNF
   (I like to edit files from another station to keep down changes to the local box between sysdiffs)
7. regedit HKLM\Software\Adobe\PageMaker65\USENGLSH\PageMaker65\PM65Defaults to the same path
   (Again, I like to do it from another box)
8. Run: sysdiff /diff /c:"Pagemaker 6.5" snapshot pm65.sd
9. Run Pagemaker, do a spell check to creat ALDUSN.MSP (see above). Copy this to unattend\replace directory

Commands to put into a batch file for auto-install

sysdiff /apply /m n:\unattend\sysdiff\pm65.sd^M
copy n:\unattend\replace\aldusn.msp c:\pm65\rsrc\linguist\prx\usenglsh^M