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Subject:Auto-Installer for Reader From:Kathy Ellis <kathy -at- TIBINC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:33:37 -0800
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.
