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What is the correct way to determine the install location of Acrobat/Reader to install plugins?

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We were previously using the following registry key to determine where we need to install our Acrobat/Reader plugin.

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\%d\InstallPath  

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\%d\InstallPath  

(and append \plugin_ins to that result)

 

With Acrobat DC, I no longer see that registry key.

 

I was planning on changing our code to instead look here to determine the install paths:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Acrobat.exe\Path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\AcroRd32.exe\Path

 

Is this the recommended way of determining where to install plugins? I would rather not have our installation break when they update Acrobat/Reader the next time (for example maybe in the future they decide to change the executable name...)


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