Acrobat Reader is present?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sat Aug 30 03:30:01 EDT 2003


Javier,

Check out:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm?_file001

This has not only code for finding Acrobat, but how to launch it as well
(in case you need it).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of ecu
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Acrobat Reader is present? 
> 
> 
> Amigos:
> Many times you want to check if certain sw is installed in the users 
> computer, this is true for Quicktime (in order to run QT files like 
> QTVR etc), inthat case it is easily tetsted with the result of the 
> function QTVersion(). But what if you want to know if Acrobat is 
> installed?
> 
> I want to be able to read pdf files directly within RR in the Mac, I 
> can use a player and QT 6.3  but the trick doesn't work with 
> Windows,  
> pdf files can be viewed with the Excelent AltBowser only if 
> the machine 
> has Acrobat.
> 
> Any ideas? I understand that, in the winboxes there is 
> something like a 
> "Registry" where the system store info about the residing apps.
> 
> Have a good day,
> mcmultimedia at entelnet.bo
> Javier
> 
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