Opening pdfs using a CD based application

Hi:
I am heartily sick of Adobe Acrobat and would like my users
to open pdfs with the Foxit application. Currently I scan the users
system for acrobat and, if it isn't there, prompt them to install
the reader. However, I'd like to give this approach the heave-ho
and instead just get pdfs to open with Foxit -- however, I don't
want them to install the program -- I just want the program to run
from the cd. Has anyone made this work?
Thanks for any advice you can provide

Last I checked, Authorware will default to the Windows
associations for
launching a parent application. So if the user has Acrobat
installed, no
matter what you enter for the first JOR argument, Acrobat
will be
launched for PDF files. BUT if the computer doesn't have an
association,
then it shouldn't have a problem launching the specified
parent application.
Just mentioning that in case you required Foxit to be used
for some reason.
Side note, I love the Foxit Reader. So nice to have a basic
.exe with no
dependencies, required installing, and such silliness.
I've replaced Acrobat on all my machines with Foxit and PDF
Creator for
reading and printing PDFs (respectively, of course). And PDFs
open so
much quicker too than the Acrobat bloat.
Erik
EdKaset wrote:
> Problem solved. I hadn't realized that Foxit Reader was
a standalone .exe --
> thought it required installation like Adobe Reader.
Thank God I never have to
> use Adobe Reader again. What a hideous bloated thing it
is.
>
Erik Lord
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