[Developer] How to RELIABLY get Acrobat Reader Version info from registry
(Using Wise Installation system 9.02)
First, we get the path from here:
SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe
if it is not found, we get it from here:
SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\AcroRD32.exe\shell\Read\command
and if it is still not found, we get it from here:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\AcroRd32.exe
Then we check the version info for the file AcroRd32.exe that is
located in one of those directories and compare it to the version
we are installing; if it is less, we install the version included
in our setup package.
Now, is this the most RELIABLE way to do this?
Should we just search for the file and get it's version info?
What if you have > 1 version of Reader installed?
What if you have Full Acrobat installed?
Is there also a way for Reader installation to NOT change the
PDF file association from Full Acrobat?
If you look at our current process, you'll see that we are checking
for multiple versions. However, there have been times when our version
installed over a later version and we cannot understand why this
happened that is why I'm addressing this here to see if anyone had
any "fool-proof" way to do it.
I know I can also check the PDF association but it may be set to Acrobat
and we do not want to modify that. We just want to check the latest
version of Reader they have installed against the one we have in our
package.
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