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If the pdf viewer plugin is not installed how to detect it and give a alert message to install pdf viewer

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Rajeev Avatar asked Nov 08 '10 07:11

Rajeev


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I created a script on my blog for all major browsers to detect pdf reading capabilities. Even distinguishes between Chrome's PDF Viewer and Acrobat. you can get the code here:

Detecting Adobe Acrobat in all browsers

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Ben Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 02:09

Ben