Pdfgetx2 with Windows Vista

[daniel borschneck]

Hello,

I have some difficulties installing Pdfgetx2 (pdfgetx2-1.0-050315)
with Windows Vista. When I launch the installation program (.exe), the
program stops and says that it can not acces to a .bat file. If I skip
this files, it stops again at another file.

Is this a problem with Windows Vista ?
Thank you,
Daniel

[Pavol Juhas]

Hi Daniel,

I have used PDFgetX2 on a Vista box and I don't recall any problems
during installation. Please, make sure that IDL virtual machine (IDL
VM) is installed before installing PDFgetX2. You can download IDL VM
from www.ittvis.com/idl

If that does not help, try to run the PDFgetX2 installer as
an administrator.

Hope this helps,

Pavol
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[Pavol Juhas]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:36:27AM +0200, bors...@cerege.fr wrote:
> Hi Pavol,
>
> Thank you for your quick answer. I have installed IDL 7.1 and reboot my
> computer. the installation seems OK. Now, when I try to install pdfgetx2
> as an administrator, at the first window (Introduction), when I click on
> "next" my computer stops working and nothing happens ! the mouse is OK but
> i can't click on anything.

Hi Daniel,

I see - I just tried to reinstall PDFgetX2 and found the same problem.
Apparently, the installer program is not compatible with Vista, I don't
know how to fix that, since I did not prepare the PDFgetX2 package.

A work around is to download the pdfgetx2-1.0-050315.zip file
instead and extract the files from its distribution folder to
a PDFgetX2 directory. Create a desktop shortcut to the pdfgetx2.bat
file and optionally set its icon to pdfgetx2.ico. If the shortcut does
not work right away, you may need to tell Windows that ".sav" files
should be run by "c:\Program Files\ITT\IDL71\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe".

[bors...@cerege.fr]

Hi Pavol,

It greatly helps ! The shortcut (pdfgetx2.bat renamed in pdfgetx2.ico)
works and everything is OK.
Thank you for your help and time,

Daniel

[s0198362]

Thanks Pavol,

Also very useful. The IDL VM is a bit tricky to find these days. I
downloaded IDL & IDL VM 7.1 - Microsoft Windows 32-bit (XP SP2, Vista,
Intel/AMD x86) from http://www.ittvis.com/download/download.asp?urlProductCode=10
after registering.

Downloading and extracting the zip file worked fine.

Adrian