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Kai,

I'm having similar issue.  How do you want to redirect the user to the
download page?  You can either create a new window using window.open()
or change the location of the current window (window.location=URL).  I
check to see if the user has the plug in, and if not, use a confirm
dialog and window.open, like this:

// Determine which browser is being used.
if (bName == "Netscape" && bVer >= 3) br = "n3";
else if (bName == "Netscape" && bVer == 2) br = "n2";
else if (bName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") br = "e3";
else br = "n2";

// Open Acrobat Reader download page if plug-in not installed
if (br == "n3" && !navigator.mimeTypes["application/pdf"]) {
   var msg = "Sorry, this pdf file cannot be displayed.\n";
   msg += "Your system does not have Acrobat Reader installed.\n";
   msg += "Click OK to go to the Adobe Web site to download the
          plug-in.";
}
if (confirm(msg)) {
   window.open("http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html",
               "Download","width=750,height=500,
               innerWidth=750,innerHeight=500,resizable");
}

You have to specify both width and innerWidth for this to work with both
IE and Netscape.  If innerWidth/Height is not defined, a full size
window is created in Netscape.

However, it is non-trivial to detect which plug-ins are loaded in IE.
This is my current problem.  I believe you can use VBScript to inspect
the Registry to see if Acrobat is installed.

Hope this helps.

Rich Jones


In article <38A20F6F.53E84CBF@computerhouseberlin.de>,
  kai@computerhouseberlin.de wrote:
> hi,
> i hope i'm in the right newsgroup...
> i got a very specific problem concerning plugIn download:
> i integrated a pdf reader into a document, so you need to have acrobat
> reader and pdf-viewer installed. if this is not the case i wanted to
> direct the user to a downloadpage that i choose (not mozilla)
> using the command
> pluginspage="http://www.adobe.de/products/acrobat/readstep.html"
> worked but communicator opens a new window without resize or any other
> functions so this turned out to be absolutely useless!
> is thre any possibility in case of this kind of error (lack of plugIn)
> to open a new window with all functions and a URL of my choice that
even
>
> works in netscape and explorer???
>
> thanks,
> kai
>
>


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