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November 17, 2017
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Is there an MSI install equivalent to flashplayer27pp_xa_install.exe ?

  • November 17, 2017
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We have many Windows 10 machine that require the ability to play flash video content from within PDF files in IE 11.

Background: Our training material is web based, and contains PDF document with embedded flash videos.

the users are getting

I was able to get working by installing flashplayer27pp_xa_install.exe as per Adobe Flash Player needed for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader .

I need to be able to automate this, to push out to our users, but at the end of the above install, it pops up a web page.

I can't find an equivalent suitable installer for  IT .

Are there any command line options, or  is there an equivalent MSI that I am missing?

Thanks


Dave

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    Thanks for the fast reply Maria,

    I had previously checked the distribution  download page. It wasn't obvious to me from the description which download was the fix.

    With your help, I download this file as below, and it  seems to fixed the issue; even though the description  "Firefox and Netscape Plug-In compatible applications – NPAPI"    doesn't  mention Internet Explore or PDF).

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    _maria_
    Legend
    November 17, 2017

    I don't work on Acrobat or Reader, but it's my understanding they require the NPAPI plugin to view Flash content in the PDF document.  The ActiveX Control is used for a specific feature of Acrobat.  To obtain more information on this, I would recommend posting to the Acrobat / Reader forum as folks there are more knowledgable.

    _maria_
    _maria_
    Legend
    November 17, 2017

    Hi Dave,


    PDF documents use the NPAPI plugin not the PPAPI plugin you have downloaded.  The link on the Adobe Flash Player needed for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader page is a direct link to download the NPAPI plugin, not the PPAPI plugin - not sure how you got the PPAPI plugin from the link on that page.

    As you noticed, the link on the Acrobat/Reader page downloads a shim installer, which downloads and installs Flash Player silently in the background.  This installer is intended for end-users, not enterprise distribution.  To distribute Flash Player within your organization requires a Flash Player distribution license.  You'll then get access to the distribution download page containing the full MSI and EXE installers available for distribution using various distribution tools (e.g. SCCM, etc).  To apply for the distribution license go to Adobe Flash Player Distribution | Adobe​.  The vast majority of requests are approved almost immediately, but can take up to 3 business days.  The email will come from noreply@adobe.com and contain an encrypted PDF file.  Please ensure your spam filters, and perimter email scanners, if in use, do not block the email.

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    Maria

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    Anonymous
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    November 17, 2017

    Thanks for the fast reply Maria,

    I had previously checked the distribution  download page. It wasn't obvious to me from the description which download was the fix.

    With your help, I download this file as below, and it  seems to fixed the issue; even though the description  "Firefox and Netscape Plug-In compatible applications – NPAPI"    doesn't  mention Internet Explore or PDF).

    _maria_
    _maria_
    Legend
    November 17, 2017

    NPAPI plugin won't work on Internet Explorer.  You'll need the ActiveX Control for IE (unless you're on Windows 8.x/10, in which case, Microsoft embeds Flash Player in IE/Edge).

    I don't recall the Flash Player distribution page ever notating which version to use for viewing Flash content in SWFs, that's on the Acrobat/Reader support page.  But the link on that page *is* intended to offer the NPAPI plugin, so customers get the correct plugin required by Acrobat/Reader, so I'm interested to find out how/why it offered up the PPAPI plugin (assuming it did, since the file name you posted is for the PAPPI plugin).  Which OS version and browser were you using when you downloaded the installer?

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