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Definition

Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player, and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. ..

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Installation and Configuration of Adobe CS3

Creative Suite 3 Design Premium on Win XP

By Daniel K. Schneider.

Configuration of my machine
  • Hardware: a Dell XPS II laptop
  • OS: Updated swiss-french XP.
  • Other Adobobe stuff installed: It already had an older Dreamweaver 8, 2 Acrobats (5 and 6 I think), Framemaker 7.0 and Framemaker 7.2, Adobe SVG 3 and Photoshop Elements.
  • Permission: A user with full administrator rights.
  • Other: I disabled AcAfee (Virusscan). I didn't have any beta or trialware of CS 3 installed.

It was quite a nightmare. Adobe is often not compatible with Adobe (went through this also with various versions of Distillor/Creator in combination with Framemaker). With my install, Acrobat 8 Professional would not install giving a totally useless error message. Didn't find any useful help on the Adobe site for a simple solution, except the sort of ludicrous advice like reinstalling windows.

The usual unreflective try/boot cycle

Here is what I tried on Windows XP (step by step, each time waiting between 1 and 3 hours ....). Lucky I got my Linux system next to it on which I can work and write flames.

  • Uninstalled all Adobe software (except Framemaker 7.2). In particular, all PDF Distillor/Creator versions. Launched installer again, just selected the Acrobat component.
  • Removed stuff from the Registry uninstalled all "PDF" containing entries with the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility (download), ....
  • Removed again CS3 plus all other Adobe software, and went again quickly through the registry and windows cleanup. Still didn't work at this time, but log file got down to only 50MB ;) with less error messages:
Error 1406.Could not write value ThreadingModel to key 
\Software\Classes\CLSID\{06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3}\InprocServer32.
Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.

Product: Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional -- Error 1406.Could not write value ThreadingModel to key
\Software\Classes\CLSID\{06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3}\InprocServer32.  
System error .  Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.

You can see this kind of information either by looking at the Adobe log files (see below) or by looking at the Microsoft evenviewer, i.e. type eventvwr in a command window.

Informed installation

Here is what you have to read (like line by line)

Links
  • http://www.adobe.com/go/kb400615. Troubleshoot installation problems (Adobe Creative Suite 3.x on Windows XP).
  • http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401401 Error "Some problems occurred during installation", "Component install failed", or "Shared components failed to install" (Adobe Creative Suite 3)).
  • http://www.adobe.com/go/kb400593. Find and read installation logs for Adobe Creative Suite 3.
    • Logs are located in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers folder (that's useful information).
  • http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=329137 (Error "1402: Could not open key ..." or "1406: Could not write...to key..." )
    • Solutions 1 (the Adobe Fix_1406ACL.exe) and solution 2 (uninstalling all Acrobats) will not work. Changing manually registry permissions might. Good luck !
Editing registry permissions
  • Type regedit from a command window
  • Edit -> Find 06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3 (the equivalent)
Conclusion

A bloody disgrace. I don't mind suffering when I have to *compile* some free software on a Unix system. I just wonder a bit why the average user agrees to cope with this. Maybe he/she will just go an buy a new PC ? Also, why the hell does a simple Acrobat component re-install take like 2 hours and needs to reinstall other stuff too ?

Whenever you can, use SVG instead of Flash ! Just put contents on the web instead of "dreamweavering" front pages.

Links

General

(lots of oudated ones too).

Adobe

(includes some tutorials)

Tutorials

(to sort out, no endorsements here)

Books

(no idea if they are any good)

  • Adobe Creative Team (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book. ISBN 0321499824
  • Anderson, Andy (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional On Demand. ISBN 0789736926 592 pages.
  • Finkelstein Ellen and Gurdy Leete (2007). Flash CS3 For Dummies. ISBN 0470121009, 408 pages.
  • Gerantabee, Fred (August ? 2007). Dynamic Learning: Flash CS3 Professional. ISBN 10 0-596-51058-6
  • Grover, Chris and E. Moore (2007). Flash CS3: The Missing Manual. ISBN 0596510446 - O'Reilly page, 527 pages. (From reviews on the web, this looks like the most suitable one for starters)
  • Morris David (2007). Creating a Web Site with Flash CS3 Professional: Visual QuickProject Guide. ISBN 0321503007
  • Moock, Colin, Essential ActionScript 3.0. ISBN 0-596-52694-6. (From reviews on the web, this seems to be best action script 3.0 book)
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