Cutepdf Pro Silent Install Java
Review: Soul Jazz has previously dug deep into the back catalogue of American flautist Lloyd McNeill, reissuing a number of albums including two made with his acclaimed jazz quintet. Their latest rummage through the vaults has resulted in the reissue of one of his most sought-after sets - 1976 private press LP 'Treasures', original copies of which now change hands for significant sums online. It remains a fine album, all told, with McNeill's breezy, ear-catching flute solos rising over backing tracks that are variously sublimely sun-kissed (the bright pianos and cheery madrigal mood of 'Salvation Army'), suave and swinging ('As A Matter Of Fact') and effortlessly soft and seductive (the unfurling beauty of 'You Don't Know What Love Is').
CutePDF Writer is a neat little utility that installs a printer on your computer. Anything that you print to that printer (documents, images, web pages, etc.) gets saved as a .PDF file. I like this sort of utility because they’re free ways to create PDF files and I find that to be an even better print preview function and it saves paper when I can keep things digitally.
If I remember, Ninite Pro can install over the network to domain computers. I just run Ninite Pro regularly with a scheduled task from the command line. Skype Flash 'Flash (IE)' '7-Zip' Air Chrome CutePDF GoToMeeting iTunes Java VLC. Other Support Options. E-mail Technical Support: We do not offer telephone support, however an engineer may contact you by phone after receiving your technical support request.
The only thing I don’t like about CutePDF Writer is that it comes with a little bit of bloat with the Ask Toolbar and wanting to set your browser homepage to Ask.com but you can uncheck these options during the install. You can also choose to not install those things during a silent install.
To silently install CutePDF, we’ll need two components downloaded as well as 7-zip installed. You must download Ghostscript (available from CutePDF’s website) and you must download the CutePDF Writer installer.
Once you have both of those files downloaded, unblock them and right-click on the converter executable and choose to extract under the 7-Zip submenu. This will give us 3 files and a directory.
You can now install Ghostscript silently by running the command on the extracted setup executable: setup.exe -s
After Ghostscript is installed, run the command: cutewriter.exe /verysilent /no3d
The /no3d parameter tells it to not install the Ask Toolbar and to not set the ‘Ask search as browser homepage’ setting.
You can use those commands in your scripts or application management utilities to get CutePDF installed with no user interaction.
| Original author(s) | Patrick Swieskowski and Sascha Kuzins |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Secure By Design Inc. |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Package manager, software repository |
| License | Freemium |
| Website | ninite.com |
Ninite (codenamed Volery during private beta stage[1][2]) is a package management system offering that lets users automatically install popular applications for their Windowsoperating system.[3] It allows users to make a selection from a list of applications and bundles the selection into a single installer package. It is free for personal use. A paid version, Ninite Pro, is available for professional use. Alternatively, a cheaper albeit less robust version of Ninite Pro known as Ninite Updater is available for users who want the ability of one-click updates without the other features offered by Ninite Pro.[4]
Features[edit]
Ninite works on Windows 7 and later. It presents the user with a list of programs and generates a custom installer executable based on the user's selection.[5] When run, the installer downloads and installs the selected programs. Ninite's installer always downloads the latest version of the program. This is accomplished by downloading a regularly-updated list of applications and their download URLs from the Ninite servers each time the program is run. Benefits of using Ninite rather than the individual applications' installers themselves include: toolbar/adware free installations, the ability to update multiple applications at once, automatic selection of architecture (64-bit vs 32-bit), language selection based on operating system's language, and error reporting, should one of the installations fail.[6]
Review[edit]
Austrian magazine Der Standard wrote, Ninite gets a good basic package of software on the computer.[7]Computerwoche listed Ninite as number 11 of 28 reviewed freeware tools.[8]PC Magazine listed it as a Batch-Installer for software installation at one.[9]
Operation[edit]
On the Ninite webpage, the user chooses software of own preference by activating checkboxes and continues with downloading the executable installer, which is preconfigured to the users custom selection. By executing the installer, the previously chosen software is unattended (without any requested user interaction) installed on the computer.
Supported software[edit]
(as of December 2019)
- Web Browsers
Chrome, Opera, Firefox
- Messaging
Discord, Skype, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Trillian
- Media
iTunes, VLC, AIMP, foobar2000, Winamp, MusicBee, Audacity, K-Lite Codec Pack, GOM, Spotify, CCCP, MediaMonkey, HandBrake
- Runtimes
Java (AdoptOpenJDK) x64 Version 8 and 11, Java (AdoptOpenJDK) 8, .Net, Silverlight, Adobe Air
- Imaging
Krita, Blender, Paint.NET, GIMP, IrfanView, XnView, Inkscape, FastStone, Greenshot, ShareX
- Documents
Foxit Reader, LibreOffice, SumatraPDF, CutePDF, PDFCreator, OpenOffice
- Security
MS Essentials, Malwarebytes, Avast, AVG, Spybot 2, Avira, SUPERAntiSpyware
- File Sharing
- Online Storage
Dropbox, Google Backup and Sync, OneDrive, SugarSync,
- Other
Evernote, Google Earth, Steam, KeePass 2, Everything, NV Access
- Utilities
TeamViewer 14, ImgBurn, RealVNC, TeraCopy, CDBurnerXP, Revo, Launchy, WinDirStat, Glary, InfraRecorder, Classic Start
- Compression
7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRAR
- Developer Tools
Python, FileZilla, Notepad++, JDK (AdoptOpenJDK) x64 8 and 11, JDK (AdoptOpenJDK) 8, JDK (Amazon Corretto) x64 8 and 11, JDK (Amazon Corretto) 8, WinSCP, PuTTY, WinMerge, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code
Known Issues[edit]
Ninite Installer/Updater includes some software that is not at the latest version, discontinued software or no longer maintained by the software author. In some cases this may mean that security issues related to that software will never be addressed.
Ninite continues to install Python v2.7 despite it being end of life[10][11]. For a while the Python Software Foundation has recommended Python users upgrade to Python v3 by the end of 2019. UK National Cyber Security Centre has also indicated there may be security issues with continuing to use Python v2[12]. As of January 2020, Ninite does not offer Python v3 as an option.
Microsoft Security Essentials is being discontinued in January 2020[13] at the same time as Windows 7. On newer versions of Windows, the same functionality is already install with the operating system under the feature name of Windows Defender.
Classic Start was discontinued at the end of 2017[14].
Other applications that have not been updated in over 3 years include:
| Application | Last Update |
|---|---|
| Launchy | April 2010 |
| InfraRecorder | September 2012 |
| ImgBurn | June 2013 |
| CutePDF | October 2014 |
| CCCP | October 2015 |
| SumatraPDF | August 2016 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Ninite Makes Installing Software Incredibly Simple'. How-To Geek. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^'Ninite Blog'. Ninite Blog. Secure By Design Inc. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ^Broida, Rick (2009-11-03). 'Free Tools for Fine-Tuning Your Windows 7 Setup'. PCWorld. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^'Ninite Updater - The Easiest Automatic Update Checker'. Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once. Secure By Design Inc. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ^'Ninite Bulk-Installs Great Free Windows Apps'. Lifehacker.com. 2009-10-23. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^'How Ninite Works Ninite Help'. Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once. Secure By Design Inc. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ^'Diese Programme sollte man auf dem neuen Gaming-Rechner installieren - derStandard.de'. DER STANDARD. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^'Kostenlose Win-10-Pflicht-Apps: Windows 10 - Die besten Freeware-Tools'. www.computerwoche.de. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^Bambusch, Fabian. 'Ninite: So installieren Sie mehrere Windows-Programme gleichzeitig - PC Magazin'. pc-magazin. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^'Sunsetting Python 2'. Python Software Foundation. Retrieved 2 Jan 2020.
- ^'Python 2 EOL: How to survive the end of Python 2'. InfoWorld. Retrieved 2 Jan 2020.
- ^{{cite web url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-cybersecurity-agency-warns-devs-to-drop-python-2-due-to-looming-eol-security-risks/%7Ctitle=UK cybersecurity agency warns devs to drop Python 2 due to looming EOL & security risks website=ZDNet accessdate=2 Jan 20120}
- ^'Security Essentials Download'. Microsoft. Retrieved 2 Jan 2020.
- ^'Classic Shell no longer in development'. Classic Shell Forum. Retrieved 2 Jan 2020.
External links[edit]
- Official website