Acrobat and Terminal Services

[agenthayes]

I about pulled my hair out getting this to work, so I thought I would share the fix.

1) Acrobat must be installed on the server in Add/Remove PRograms, not remotely via a terminal services session

2) All Adobe programs must be uninstalled in Add/Remove Programs. Additionally, these manual steps must be performed to complete the uninstall (see below link):

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328399.html

Then, reinstall.

I was able to get Acrobat Standard 6.0.0 to work on Windows 2003 server running Citrix XP Metaframe. No Adobe patches or service packs were required.

 

[rotaman]

So is this feasible?

We are running Citrix XP on windows 2000 server, and want to add the ability to make, edit, pdfs in Metaframe for our users. We have already installed Adobe reader without any issues, but are having doubts about actually installing adobe acrobat professional 7.0 on there as well. One of the companies we work with has told us about this edocprinter pdf pro software, but it ends up being the same price as the real thing... so what should we do?

Thanks

 

[agenthayes]

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 certainly works on Windows 2003 server with Citrix XP Metaframe. So, Acrobat 7.0 should work on Windows 2000 server with Citrix XP. Although, I have heard that Citrix XP Metaframe runs better on Windows 2003 server. After serarching many Citrix websites, I found my answer on Adobe's website knowledgebase; I would suggest searching there for any issues with your particular versions.