Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint Installation Manual

Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint

Installation Guide

Table of Content

Chapter 1 ---Overview ............................................................................................................... 3

Chapter 2 ---Install and Configuration ....................................................................................... 3

Install Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint 2010 ........................................................................ 3

1. Plugin Installation .................................................................................................. 3

2. Install COM Component ...................................................................................... 11

3. Get a 30 days trail ................................................................................................ 11

4. Activate ............................................................................................................... 14

5. Get start .............................................................................................................. 17

Chapter 3 ---Uninstall and Upgrade......................................................................................... 19

Uninstall Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint ........................................................................... 19

Repair Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint .............................................................................. 26

Upgrade Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint ........................................................................... 33

Chapter 1 ---Overview

Server System

SharePoint

-Windows Server 2008/2010/2012

-Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010

-Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

-Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013

-Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

This document will guide the Administrator of SharePoint farm to deploy, activate, upgrade and
uninstall a Foxit WebPDF Reader into a SharePoint environment.

Chapter 2 ---System Requirements

Chapter 3 ---Install and Configuration

Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint supports SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. Different
versions have different installation packages, but the installation steps are the same, the
following guide is the SharePoint 2010 installation manual.

Install Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint 2010

1. Plugin Installation

 Download the Installation Package (put it in any device of SharePoint server), unzip it, and

you will get the files as below:

 Double click the executable file (run as Administrator), you will see the setup

wizard (as shown below). Click “Next” to continue.

 System checking will be triggered automatically. If any item fails to pass the system

checking, you should check the related configurations. If all the items pass the system
check, click “Next” to continue.

 The Server name and database name will be read automatically.

Fill in your windows account or SQL account and click “Next”

 Please read the EULA in the dialog, check I accept the terms in the License Agreement,

and then click “Next”.

 Select the Web Applications and Site Collections to be deployed (all the Web

Applications and Site Collections in SharePoint service farm will be listed in “Site
Collection Deployment Targets”), and then click “Next”.
Note: you should select central administration as well as the sites where WebPDF will be
used.

 Click “Next” when all operations have been successfully completed.

Check the deployment information, and click “Close” to finish the plugin installation.

2. Install COM Component

COM component provides the core function of PDF conversion. We need to install the COM
component on each Application server, which runs the Foxit PDF conversion service.
Please run following command to install and upgrade the COM component:

Install-SPFoxitComs

To check whether the COM components have been installed in the server, please use the PowerShell

command:

Test-SPFoxitComs

Foxit WebPDF for SharePoint will then be installed successfully.

3. Get a 30 days trail

Once you finished the previous two steps, you have to activate the conversion component on
APP server for the further usage. If not activated, the following dialog (error code: 23) will pop
up when you open a new PDF document in SharePoint with WebPDF Reader.

But the user also can register to try out the plugin for a 30 days trail. In trail version, a watermark
of evaluation will be added to every PDF page. You can register a 30-day trial version by the
following steps.

First, run the “SPWebReaderActivation.exe” program as an administrator in an Application
Server (each application server has to do this register), then the following dialog box will be
shown. Then click the “Register for 30-day trial” button to continue.

Input registration information and click “Register Now” button.