Paquet Builder is a very important program for software developers and distributors as it can help them to build highly customizable installation packages. The program can make setup routines that will make a single setup file of all your regular multi-file deployment packages. Not only that, but you can also create distribution packages for your multimedia slideshows.
Multiple customization options can be set for your installation package, such as the company information, welcome screen, banner, splash screen, readme files, license agreement. Advanced options include adding components, executing DOS commands and launching applications, adding registry entries and more. The program provides two themes for your setup program and allows you to edit the final screen of the installation. Moreover, the program allows you to add multiple interface languages.
If you want to sell your programs, the generated package files can be easily protected by a key. In addition the installer can be configured to ask the end user for a password in order to continue the installation process.
You are not a software developer? Don't worry! You can still benefit from this wonderful program by using it to compress your files to save disk space using ZIP and 7-ZIP data compressing methods.
v2.9.6 [Mar 9, 2008]
- New 7-Zip option: encrypt file names; thus you can prevent your users from reading the list of files inside a package using a hexadecimal editor for instance.
- Better detection to find out whether PBComp.exe (Paquet Builder Compression program) completed successfully or not.
- Fixed: when the user's Windows login name contained a period ("will.smith" for instance), PB did not create the correct temporary directory (packages for a Setup routine).
- Fixed the "76%" bug in Windows Vista for command-line & silent builds.
- Added support for Windows Vista icons (PNG-compressed icons); using such icons is not recommended because it will increase the size of your final package.
- PFX passwords are now hidden.
- Fixed %CURDATETIME%
- New button to automatically set the timestamp URL (digital certificates).
- Fixed: now Live Update does not display any message when Paquet Builder is run from the command line.
- Improved progress bar behavior on Windows Vista.
- New component option: you can now store file path information relative to the component's source folder.
- MSI plug-in: resource strings are now correctly loaded by the bootstrapper under Windows Vista; error messages instead of numbers are now displayed when they are available.
- MSI plug-in : the new bootstrapper from Microsoft does not work with Windows 9x/Me. If you want to run a MSI setup on Win98/ME, you can now enable the new option "use older bootstrapper version".
- New UI Level option for MSI plug-in: you can run MSI installations silently if you wish.
- New command-line switch for PBP projects: /l ; causes Paquet Builder to perform a live update of files & components.
- Introduced %PBLASTDLG% again for wizard packages; with that variable, you can now use the "Show an information panel" custom action to display an "end dialog box".
- New directive options: CryptFilenames, NoSourceSection and LiveUpdate. See the help for further information.
- Included German language file.
