webview2 with useEvergreen

[dachevalier]

Hello,

I managed to use webview2 with Evergreen instead of the one provided the regkey webview2.useEvergreen and then deleting the webview2 subfolder to save about 450Mb.

I would like to know if there is a way to NOT install webview2 with PDF24?

[Stefan Ziegler]

Hi, yes, there is a command line option now to do this. The latest installers provide such a flag:

EXE:
pdf24-creator.exe /COMPONENTS=!webview2

MSI:
msiexec /i pdf24-creator.msi REMOVE=WebView2

[voyager]

Hi there 🙂

I noticed that this time around I had the option of skipping the installation of WebView, and I decided that "I don't need it". However, I'm curious about what is the benefit of having it installed?

Thanks.

[voyager]

Is it that with WebView the app looks like shown on the website, with the window border blending in with the rest of the app, whereas without it we have a window frame outline visible?

And perhaps dialogues are more like in Windows 10/11 and less like old-school QT-built app? 🙂

 

[Stefan Ziegler]

The toolbox is build on top of webview2. If there is no webview2 (installed with pdf24 or evergreen provided by windows), then the toolbox will not work.

[voyager]

Thanks for the clarification, Stefan. I guess I already have it through Windows, as I can access the toolbox. 👍

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