Help with launching acrobat

[Hirsch, John]

>Hi!

>I am currently faced with a problem -

>My company has a windows product which needs to launch a PDF.

>Previously, we were putting the path to the acrobat executable into the
>autoexec.bat.

>This was fine, until some of our customers decided to run it in NT.

>My question is :-

>How can I query the windows registry for the Acrobat path?

>**OR**

>How can I use com to launch Acrobat reader?

If you can use wxPython it has an ActiveX control container in which you can
run Acrobat reader.
There is a demo called ActiveXWrapper_Acrobat.py which does exactly that.
It could be worth a look.

Jon