Adobe Reader 8 Detection

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From: william.oram
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:11

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Is there JavaScript to detect Adobe Reader 8, as opposed to <= 7? This
is not a life-threatening function I need, but I'm tired of having my
component check say 'Your version of Adobe Acrobat is unknown,' whilst
it picks up 7 nicely.

This has been asked before (see
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.reader/browse_thread/thread/691d9a8d15eb1dfb),
but it's been eight months, and it's time to check what 2/3 of a year
of R&D has done. No one else on the Internet besides this topic has a
solution, but neither has the question been explicitly asked.

(Creepy fun fact: In investigating this issue, I noticed one post was
eerily similar to what I'm doing. Looking at the poster name, I saw it
was my predecessor at this company! Looks like we struggled over the
same problem.)

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Subject: Adobe Reader 8 Detection
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