Testing for PDF

[TravelMan]

Is there any way to test for the presence of the Adobe Acrobat plug-in
in Internet Explorer? It's doable in Netscape but so far I cannot get
it to work in MSIE.

[Grant Wagner]

Re: Testing for PDF

TravelMan wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is there any way to test for the presence of the Adobe Acrobat plug-in
> in Internet Explorer? It's doable in Netscape but so far I cannot get
> it to work in MSIE.[/color]

A quick search of the Google turned up this code:

<!-- Check if browsers have PDF support and
record if we need to use VBScript detection
method if the number of MIME types is 0. -->
<script type="text/javascript">
// Variable to keep track of user's PDF support
var hasPDFSupport = false;

// Variable to indicate whether we need to use
// VBScript method to detect PDF support
var useVBMethod = false;

// Internet Explorer returns 0 as the number of
// MIME types, so this code will not be executed
// by it. This is our indication to use VBScript
// to detect PDF support.
if (navigator.mime Types != null &&
navigator.mimeT ypes.length > 0) {

if (navigator.mime Types["applicatio n/pdf"] != null) {
hasPDFSupport = true;
}
} else {
useVBMethod = true;
}
</script>
<!-- Visual Basic Script to detect support of Adobe PDF
plug-in. This code is not run on browsers which report
they have MIME types, and it is also not run by
browsers which do not have VBScript support. -->
<script language="VBScr ipt">
On Error Resume Next
If useVBMethod = true Then
hasPDFSupport = IsObject(Create Object("PDF.Pdf Ctrl.6"))
End If
</script>

Note that PDF.PdfCtrl.6 is for Adobe Reader 6, I believe the object name
is different for other versions, so you may want to test them all (just
change "6" to "5" to test the presence of version 5 I believe, but you may
need to do some research if that doesn't work).

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| Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>

* Client-side Javascript and Netscape 4 DOM Reference available at:
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http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/frames.html

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...ence_entry.asp

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