Make a pdf document default to open in Acrobat on other computers

Ok - so I know one must make their own computer default to use Acrobat to open pdf's... but I know most macs default to 'Mac Preview' and you have to manually change this. A lot of 'non computer type' people just don't bother. So I wondered if there is anyway to make the pdf itself open in Acrobat on other people's machines, despite what their defualt setting is?
I've used links etc in my pdf to make it interactive, and they don't work well in Preview, so I want to make sure people are viewing it correctly. Any ideas? Thanks!

It's not that simple as you have to take account of three things:
Many third-party solutions have no forms support
Some have bits of JS but not all - you may for example be in a mobile version of Reader, or in Acrobat with enterprise feature lockdown.
Some third-party apps that do have rudimentary JS engines declare the same software ident strings as Acrobat or Reader, specifically to avoid triggering a detection script.
Rather than using forms, the most efficient method is to use a layer (OCG) that is visible by default, and is subsequently hidden by a doc-level script. Most third-party apps, even those with no forms support, will still happily render OCG content. It'll even display if someone imports the PDF into an editing program.
Getting code to reliably detect that it's running in the Acrobat Family is difficult but not impossible - but you don't trust the ident string until you know you're in Adobe code, instead you sniff for API objects inside try-catch loops, which the third-party apps cannot implement. Some of the security handler options are nice and Adobe-specific.

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