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I have a very targeted (i.e. Controlled) audience. They will all be using IE on Microsoft Windows. Do you how to do this on this platform? Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [PDFdev] Detecting the Acrobat Reader plug-in > > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > _____________________________________________________________ > > At 2:32 PM -0700 9/22/03, Ron Meske wrote: > >I am interested in being able to detect if the IE browser can display PDF > >files regardless of how, whether it be Acrobat Reader or a third-party > >plug-in. > > There is no way to do this reliably for any browser on all OS > platform using any PDF viewer... > > You can do it on Windows with IE and Acrobat by using > COM-specific stuff, but not too much more than that... > > > >Macromedia documented the means of detecting Flash, > > Again, only for IE on Windows and the Macromedia Flash > player. If I'm on Mac OS, or in Opera (for example), or using a 3rd > party player, their solution doesn't owrk. > > > Leonard > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) > 215-629-0789 (fax) > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
