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Adobe Reader version usage stats

penkapp
Registered: Dec 19 2008
Posts: 2

Is there information available from Adobe, or whomever, that shows Adobe Reader usage by version number?

My Product Information:
Reader 9.0, Windows
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
In short, no. There's public penetration data on Flash Player on the Adobe website but the equivalent for Reader is confidential, partly because there are 'rival' PDF plugins out there who would kill for the chance to see any gaps in the market!

It's also not as simple to collect Reader versioning as it's not declared in browser headers, and the relatively trivial version sniff in Flash Player (which happens almost every time you hit a site like Adobe) isn't as easy to handle with PDF content. It's doable, but too klunky to run on the quiet for mass-market visitor sampling.