Re: Auto-Installer for Reader

[John Gilger <jgilger_it -at- NV -dot- DOE -dot- GOV>]

We routinely send out our documents on CDs in PDF format.

We downloaded a copy of each version (Win, Mac, Unix, OS/2) of Acrobat
Reader and include these packages on the CD so that our customers can
immediately load it if they need it to view the documents.

This way we don't need to make the assumption that they have internet
access.

John

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kathy Ellis [SMTP:kathy -at- TIBINC -dot- COM]
        Sent:   Thursday, February 11, 1999 4:34 PM
        To:     TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
        Subject:        Auto-Installer for Reader

        Hello, all!

        My company is putting PDF files on CD and the audience
        doesn't necessarily have Reader already installed. Is
        there a plug-in or something that I can download from somewhere
        that does one of two things:

        searches the PC to see if Reader is there and auto-installs the
        program if it's not

        OR

        launches straight into a welcome.PDF file if Reader already
exists

        I know it wouldn't take a ton of programming to do this, but I'm
a tech
        writer and our programmers are up to their "eyeballs" in
alligators right
        now.

        Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

        Kathy Ellis


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