PDF-XChange Editor IE Plugin language setting

[Meitzi]

Simple question, how do you change language of IE Plugin?
It does not seem to follow PDF-XChange Editor language setting and there is no UI to change language inside browser.


Appendix:
PDF-XChange Editor 5.5 308.2
Internet Explorer 11
Windows 7 x64, UAC enabled

By looking at this more, I find out that IE virtualize(?) plugin registery to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InternetRegistry\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-xxxxx\SOFTWARE\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0\Settings.BrowserPlugin\International\
and by manually adding t.LocaleID parameter I could set language.
But this is not only problem, because if you run IE at admin its not virtualized and it does not follow any language settings in that state either.

[Patrick-Tracker Supp]

Hello Meitzi,

Thank you for the post!

To change the language in the plug-in. Open up a PDF in browser, then make sure the computer’s focus is pointed to the document (clicking anywhere on it will do the trick). Then type CTRL+k-> language-> Choose the language you desire->Set as default.

I hope this helps!

[Meitzi]

Thanks, CTRL+K does help for one user.


Actually I'm installing to 250 users and was wondering how to set correct languages by default.
In my opinion, it would not be bad if programs follow regional settings by default. Why not?


I did not find anyway to set language "auto" by installation, so now I'm creating two keys for every user
HCU\Software\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0\Settings\International\t.LocaleID=auto
HCU\Software\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0\Settings.BrowserPlugin\International\t.LocaleID=auto

This would actually work if IE would not virtualize registry inside IE.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi Meitzi,

Try setting for each user (e.g. on their next log in):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0\Settings.BrowserPlugin\International\t.LocaleID = "fi-FI"
for Finnish language inside the browser.

As for the IE virtualization - if you turn protected mode off in IE - it should stop virtualizing.

Regards,
Stefan

[Meitzi]

Please note, if you are regular user, dont read this. Just use CTLR+K, thats the answer.
Nothing more to see here.
This is great product, and we love it.


But if we take closer look at installation in managed environment.

Testmachine: Windows 8.1 CU1 x64 (I'm very certain you will get same result any machine)
Finnish language pack and regional settings on users.
Clean computer. (of course its never clean, but uninstall all PDF-X products then delete left overs keys inside machine and user and virtualized IE keys)

Installed using: (no touch installation)
msiexec.exe /i PDFXVE5.x64.msi /passive

• Installer user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin (admin mode): English
  (so, my suggestions is that program would follow regional settings in this case)
  
  Normal user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: English

Installed using: (no touch insallating)
msiexec.exe /i PDFXVE5.x64.msi /passive EDITOR_LANGUAGE=fi-FI

• Installer user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: Finnish
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: Finnish
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin (admin mode): Finnish
  
  Normal user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: Finnish
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: Finnish

Installed using: (32bit program in x64 environment, just testing)
msiexec.exe /i PDFXVE5.x86.msi /passive

• Language of (results)
  Installer user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin (admin mode): English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: English
  
  Normal user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: English

Installed using:
msiexec.exe /i PDFXVE5.x86.msi /passive EDITOR_LANGUAGE=fi-FI

• (please note, this possible bug. By default Wow6432Node would of course work in 32bit programs)
  Installer user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: Finnish
  PDF-XChange Editor IE pluging: English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE pluging (admin mode): English
  
  Normal user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: English
  PDF-XChange Editor IE pluging: English

Installed using: (no touch insallating)
msiexec.exe /i PDFXVE5.x64.msi /passive EDITOR_LANGUAGE=""
(this os not officially support, nor auto)

• Installer user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: Finnish
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: Finnish
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin (admin mode): Finnish
  
  Normal user:
  PDF-XChange Editor: Finnish
  PDF-XChange Editor IE plugin: Finnish

Suggestions:
Make language=auto to default behavior of all your programs if not set otherwise. (not t.LocaleID key found)
Why would be English better than local language?
This includes at least Editor, Printer, Browser pluging. (Shell?)

OR at least allow set EDITOR_LANGUAGE=auto officially

So, now my workaround is install using EDITOR_LANGUAGE=""
(so non Finnish user will get correct language also, its outside of this test)

Other workaround would be set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0\Settings\International\t.LocaleID=auto (and just in case, to Wow6432Node too)
to every machine and then just install without EDITOR_LANGUAGE

And actually we have Pro version, so there is DDEFLANGID and PDEFLANGID parameters which take hexadecimal values instead, but in this example I did not want make look complicated.

Link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.20).aspx
in help file is not perfect. But seems there is not very good list available.
maybe these two (at least include finnish)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... s.10).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/fi-FI/library ... s.85).aspx

Thanks for help, I'm happy now.
(IE seems virtualize registry only to admin user, so its was not a problem here)

[John - Tracker Supp]

Pleased to hear you found a resolution and hopefully there are others that can benefit too - appreciate the info !

Thanks