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Good afternoon.

there is a javascript function a lot of people use to detect if Adobe reader is installed, and which version it is. However, It can only detect the version in Firefox up to 6. It checks if the AcroPDF.PDf.1 activeX object can be instantiated to determine if version 7 or above is installed in Internet Explorer. But, there is no way to differentiate if the dll is for v7 or v8.

The problems are:
- adobe removed the version info out of the mimetype for the navigator object in firefox, so can't use that to get the version for v6+
- there is no function in the activeX object using the AcroPDF.dll to find out the version.

So, does anyone have a work around to detect recent versions in a web browser? Or does anyone know someone working for Adobe that could raise these problems at thier next meeting?

Cheers,
John