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I have a PDF form created in Acrobat 8 (not LiveCycle). The form has a submit button that generates an email and attaches an XFDF file. Everything works fine in Reader 7 & 8. However, I tested it on one machine with Reader 6 and it did not work. I received an error message telling me I must open the file in a browser window. When I do this, it submits the file to my email, but it comes as a POSTDATA file.

After some checking, I discovered that the SendMail plugin is not installed on the machine. I'm guessing this is the cause of my problems?? If so, is there a way to check for this plugin and, if it is missing, alert the user? If this is not the problem, any thought on what is?

Thank you,
Justin

2007-12-04 22:23:04

thomp

Registered: Feb 15 2006

Posts: 4411

The JavaScript "App" object has a property called "plugIns", which is an array of all the currently installed plug-ins.

Test for your plug-in with this function

function TestForPlugIn(){for(var i=0;i i++){if( app.plugIns[i].name == "SendMail")return true;}return false;}

Replace "&lt" with the lessthan symbol. Place this function in a document script and call it whenever you want to test for the "SendMail" plug-in.

Thom Parker
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