How to determine the version of Adobe Acrobat installed in Firefox via JavaScript

Question

I know that this can be done in IE by creating an ActiveX object, but how to do it in FF. The navigator.plugins ['Adobe Acrobat'] object lets you know if it is installed or not, but it does not contain a version number. Any ideas?

Answer 1

navigator.plugins[n].name, where nis the Acrobat plugin index, must have a version number in it. Unfortunately, starting with Adobe Reader 8, they changed their name to "Adobe PDF Plug-In for Firefox and Netscape", without version information. So, if this is the name that you have discovered at least Reader 8, but cannot say version 8 of 9.

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Answer 2

http://www.pinlady.net/PluginDetect/AdobeReaderDetect.htm

Answer 3

This should be possible, since swfobject detects the flash version:

source code SWFObject

Answer 4

var p = document.getElementById('Pdf1');
//p.GetVersions()
if(p.GetVersions().indexOf("7.0") != -1)
    alert("Acrobat 7 Found")

Answer 5

This script detects the reader in all browsers - even detects the Chrome PDF Reader ...

Acrobat Detection Javascript code

Answer 6

var browser_info = {
    name: null,
    acrobat : null,
    acrobat_ver : null
  };


if(navigator.plugins != null)
  {      
   var acrobat = navigator.plugins['Adobe Acrobat'];
   if(acrobat == null)
   {           
    browser_info.acrobat = null;
    return browser_info;
   }
   browser_info.acrobat = "installed";
   browser_info.acrobat_ver = parseInt(acrobat.version[0]);                   
  }


where navigator is the property of Window