import settings using a script or something like this

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bastilon
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import settings using a script or something like this

Post by bastilon »

Heya board,

we're currently using PDF-XChange Viewer PRO 2.0 Build 57.0.
Now I got a question from a customer of us if it's possible to import special setting automatically into PDF Viewer like automatic distribution.
I'm distributing PDF-XChange Viewer PRO using SCCM and the follwoing command line:

PDFXVwer.exe /NODESKICON /PDFV /NORESTART /VERYSILENT /Key:"aaaaa-bbbbb--xxxxx-yyyyy-zzzzz" /UserName:"Company" /Organization:"Company" /UserEmail:"email@company.com" /LOG=c:\PDFXVwer.txt

The distribution works perfect.
Now I'd like to go into the next level: distribute the settings into PDF X Change Viewer automatically. The settings are saved into a dat-file.
And for that I've no idea and hope here is somewhere who knows more than me :)

Thanks in advance for any idea.

greetz from the european country

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Re: import settings using a script or something like this

Post by Stefan - PDF-XChange »

Hello bastilon,

I presume that this .dta file was created after executing the Edit -> Export All Settings to Data File... Command in one instance of the Viewer?

In order to distribute them to all usets you will need to run the Viewer .exe with the following parameter:
<<installation path>>\PDFXCview.exe /importp <setting_file_name>
And the settings from your dat file would be loaded automatically.

You will need to do that for each user, as the settings are stored per user, and not globally.

Best,
Stefan