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No you can launch acrobat from a cd regardless of whats installed on the hard disk. We do it by creating a small .exe with wise installbuilder which is called by the autorun.inf. The exe detects the cd rom drive path and then calls the acrord32.exe and the name of the pdf to launch. Works every time. Copy the Acrobat reader folder from the acrobat CD and you will also get the licence pop up for first time users.
Not least that people seem convinced that my problem is assembling a viable autorun CD... Not so. This issue is having the display run with my Reader preferences not the Adobe defaults. Best part of a week's research appears to have settled as follows:
That yes, Reader can be run from a CD but it will always default to the preferences on the user's machine *if they already have an instal of Reader*.
This view is supported by Aandi Inston... on another forum...
'Well, preferences are stored in the registry, under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER settings. Why wouldn't any copy pick up the same preferences, by design...'
I'd like to find a way around it but short of an an opening mini app. that writes to the user machine's Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER settings, it doesn't seem possible.
I've devised a workaround to make it easy for user's to open and modify Reader prefs. Inelegant but better than having a cursor that disappears, (making drop down menus very clumsy), unsmoothed linework and a splash screen every time they open the product...
But... I'm still looking for something less intrusive...
Greetings
Denis Postle ___________________________________________ Wentworth Learning Resources
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