Software Deployment

Hi Will,
all the non English AcroReader packages are dual language e.g. the German one can be easily switched back to English from the menu (e.g. 'Bearbeiten --

Grundeinstellungen -- International').
To do this, i would edit the package with the tools from the SDK.
Let's assume, you start with the German MSI and want to add the French language.
First capture the French language entries from the French package to transform:
"MsiTran.Exe -g AcroRead-french.msi AcroRead-english.msi french.mst"
After that, you have all the necessary things you need in 'french.mst'
Now, you can unwanted things like transformed text entries.
You need to work the file table. The sequences have to be ascending.
You need to add the French 'Data1.cab' (rename it to Data2).

With this, you would have a ML package with all the logic from the vendor preserved.

IMHO, such a package would be faster built and more reliable, than capturing the hole thing.

Hope, this gives you some idea.

Regards, Nick

thank you for your answer!
First capture the French language entries from the French package to transform:
"MsiTran.Exe -g AcroRead-french.msi AcroRead-english.msi french.mst"
After that, you have all the necessary things you need in 'french.mst'
but why do you use the english msi? shouldnt i use the german one?

i made msitran.exe -g AdobeReader8.0_fr.msi AdobeReader8.0_de.msi french.mst (with the german mst! is that wrong?)

and the output was a french.mst which size is about 200kb.

and now what do i need to do next?

thank you for you patience! ;-)

-willcee

ORIGINAL: willcee
but why do you use the english msi? shouldnt i use the german one?


no, because you want the delta between English and the additional language.
Even worse: If you compare the French against the German you will end up with a mst that _drops_ the German stuff, because it's not in the French. right?

Hi Will,
ORIGINAL: willcee
but why do you use the english msi? shouldnt i use the german one?
and now what do i need to do next?


Maybe it would work with your approach also. But the non english versions of AR are always built on top of the english version. This means, you get the cleanest language pack, if you build it against the english MSI.

The next steps are the ones i have already outlined in my first post.
Use ORCA to open the german MSI and load the new french MST. Now you see all the changes that are in the MST.
Do the file stuff and test it.

Regards, Nick