Indetify installed Version of Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Professional

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Hello,In our Company we have many Installations of Acrobat Standard 2017 and Acrobat Professional 2017. We want to update to version 2020. The problem for us is to indentify if Professional or Standard is installed.Both versions are  named as "Adobe Acrobat 2020" in the Apps or. "Programs and Funktions".Ist there a way to find out if Standard or Professional is installed? In the Registry I can´t find a possibility to identify.I want to use a script (Automation Studio or Powershell) to identify the version and going on with the corresponding result, to install the right update-version.The OS ist Windows 10 20H2. We use Baramundi for the software distribution. Thank youChristof

IckeChris · Accepted Answer

Here I have found a method how to identify the Adobe versions:

Appendix A: Identifying Installs — Deployment Planning and Configuration (adobe.com)

I have searched for the SWID files with an invetory based on software detection rules on the clients and identified the installed version with the <product_title> tag. With the result I´ve got the lists of the corresponding clients.

try67 · Answer

If you can automate running a script within the application then you could do it. I'm not sure how you would do it externally.

Inside Acrobat you can run the following code (from the JS Console for example):

console.println(app.viewerType);

and it will print out a string to the Console. If that string is "Exchange" it means it's Acrobat Standard. If it's "Exchange-Pro" it means it's Acrobat Pro.

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