LiveCycle ES3 SP2 | PDF Generator | Quick Fix 1025-004

Posted on Oct 8, 2013

• Splwow64.exe process is terminated frequently during native conversions, leading to failure of some tasks in the conversion process. (Ref #3620616)
  
• Character spacing and line width differ across PDF documents created by Adobe Acrobat and by Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator, on Microsoft Windows. (Ref #3380429)

• Adobe LiveCycle ES3 SP2 (10.0.4)
  
• Windows 2008 R2 installation with the following:
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
  • http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2815716

1. Take a backup of the <LiveCycle_root>/deploy folder. It is required if you decide to uninstall the quick fix.
2. Stop your application server.
3. Extract the QF archive file to your hard drive.
4. In the directory named according to the operating system that you are using:
   
   • Windows
     Navigate to the appropriate directory on the installation media or folder on your hard disk where you copied the installer, and double-click the install.exe file.
     • (Windows 32-bit) Disk1\InstData\Windows\VM
     • (Windows 64-bit) Disk1\InstData\Windows_64bit\VM
   • Linux, Solaris, AIX
     Navigate to the appropriate directory, and from a command prompt, type ./install.bin.
     • (Linux) Disk1/InstData/Linux/NoVM
     • (Solaris) Disk1/InstData/Solaris/NoVM
     • (AIX)Disk1/InstData/AIX/VM
       

   This launches an install wizard that guides you through the installation.

5. On the Introduction panel, click Next.
6. On the Choose Install Folder screen, verify that the default location displayed is correct for your existing installation, or click Browse to select the alternate folder where LiveCycle ES3 SP2 is currently installed, and click Next.
7. Read the Quick Fix Patch Summary information and click Next.
8. Read the Pre-Installation Summary information and click Install.
9. When the installation is complete, click Next to apply the quick fix updates to your installed files.
10. The Start Configuration Manager checkbox is selected by default. Click Done to run the Configuration Manager.

    To run Configuration Manager later, deselect the Start Configuration Manager option before you click Done. You can start Configuration Manager later using the appropriate script in the [LiveCycle root]/configurationManager/bin directory.

11. Depending on your application server, choose one of the following documents and follow the instructions in the Configuring and Deploying LiveCycle section.
    • Installing and Deploying LiveCycle ES3 for JBoss
    • Installing and Deploying LiveCycle ES3 for WebSphere
    • Installing and Deploying LiveCycle ES3 for WebLogic
12. In case of a remote deployment or a cluster setup, manually add the following registry entry (for details refer to the Microsoft patch mentioned in Prerequisites to installing the QF section).
    Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print
    Value: Name: SplWOW64TimeOutSeconds; Type: REG_DWORD; Data: 30
13. Set the value of the environment variable PDFG_UNMANAGED_SPLWOW64 as true.
14. Restart the server machine.

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