Detecting Acrobat in IE

[arst06d]

Is there any way to detect whether adobe acrobat is installed when using Internet Explorer other than by using CreateObject("AcroExch.Document&quot or CreateObject("PDF.PdfCtrl.1&quot?

Obviously this instantiates the activex object which, depending on the IE browser settings, throws an activex warning, which we have found confuses our audience. It also appears to delay the page loading.

Cheers.

 

[mrmovie]

probably better of posting that one in the asp forum.
from a vbs point of view you would have to create a ref to activex to get any info, ie search for a file, run a command etc etc.
perhaps you can run something in asp to get info from the client.
sorry i cant be any more help
regards
von moyla

 

[mrmovie]

you can use ado v2.5 which uses a new ms tech called "distributed author versioning"
which equates to WebDAV in IIS terms.
anyway it allows you to manip data in a non-database data store( your text file i guess)

you can use an ADO.Record object which can represent a folder and then you go through this folder and it gives you a record set of the files in that folder.

there is also a stream object but lookin at it all it does is allow you to read a text file using an ADO connection. the info i have got only shows how to read the file as a text stream,,,,so thats the best ive got


i posted the above in thread about ado connections but it seems relevant here.
set objStream = server.createobject("ADO.Stream&quot
objStream.open "

http://asp/test.txt"

could you get the clients ip address and try and open a file locaally, ie an adobe file and catch the return code to see if it was successful.

i am shooting in the sky here, that friday feelin

von moyla