detect if acrobat installed

[scott]

hi

anyone got any bright ideas on how to check for the presence of Adobe
Acrobat (full thing, not the reader) ?

I can't check for the software by simply checking for it's presence in

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat x.x

as x.x changes pending the version installed (they're using versions 5, 6
and 7), plus their may be some customed installed locations on some of the
machines (

thought about maybe checking for the PDF Printer and if it's exists then
calling the code, but some users may delete this by mistake (although I
guess Acrobat would fail to convert the doc to PDF then anyway so it's
possibly a good validity check)

or checking for the built in Adobe macros that the toolbar buttons must call
(I don't think users can fiddle with these, they seem to be locked VBA
projects, even if the users manage to turn off the buttons/toolbar, the
projects and their macros would still exist !?

anyone got a nice solid idea ?

thanks

_scott

 

[Anand.V.V.N]

Hi Scott,

Checking the reigstry would help?
Anand

 

[David Sisson]

http://groups-beta.google.com/group...ateobject+adobe&rnum=3&hl=en#a47cfd3be65a645a

If link doesn't work, search Google in VBA newsgroup for Createobject
Adobe. Select the message entitled Object Browsing

The meat of the message said to use:

Dim AcroApp As CAcroApp
Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")

'Then test for error
If NOT Err Then
AdobeWasNotRunning = True
Set AcroApp = nothing
End If

!!!!Untested!!!!!