Thursday, 9 January 2014

Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and Microsoft Office 2010 both virtualized

Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and Microsoft Office 2010 both virtualized

Recently I posted the Acrobat 9 Pro sequencing recipe. You won't be able to convert documents to PDF if you have Office virtualized.

To enable this functionality dependencies need to be created. Both ways, because if you try to convert a word document for example from inside the Acrobat, Word will have to be a dependency of Acrobat. But if you try to print a word document to PDF, the Acrobat will have to be a Word's dependency.

So here's how you do it. You should do this before deployment the packages, of course. But if you have deployed them already and want to test in the local computer then you can go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\SoftGrid Client\OSD Cache and find the OSDs of Word and Acrobat.

Edit them using notepad.

Now in the Word OSD copy the line that starts with <CODEBASE HREF and in the Acrobat OSD between the lines <ENVLIST/>
                     </VIRTUALENV>
paste what you copied but between the new tag <DEPENDENCIES>

It will look like this:


Now Save it.

Repeat the same process but this time from Acrobat to Word.

Note: You will have to do the same for every dependency! Eg: Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

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