Adobe Reader Command Line Reference

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Is there any official command line  switches  reference for the different versions of Adobe  formerly Acrobat  Reader   I didn t find anything on Adobe Developer Connection   Especially I want to    Start Reader and open a file Open a file at a specific position  page  Close Reader  or single file

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To open a PDF at page 100 the follow works

<path to Adobe Reader> /A "page=100" "<Path To PDF file>"

If you require more than one argument separate them with &

I use the following in a batch file to open the book I'm reading to the page I was up to.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe /A "page=149&pagemode=none" "D:\books\MCTS(70-562) ASP.Net 3.5 Development.pdf"

The best list of command line args for Adobe Reader I have found is here.
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf

It's for version 7 but all the arguments I tried worked.

As for closing the file, I think you will need to use the SDK, or if you are opening the file from code you could close the file from code once you have finished with it.

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I found this   http   www robvanderwoude com commandlineswitches php Acrobat  Open a PDF file with navigation pane active  zoom out to 50   and search for and highlight the word  batch    AcroRd32 exe  A  zoom 50 amp navpanes 1 OpenActions amp search batch  PdfFile

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Call this after the print job has returned   oShell AppActivate  Adobe Reader  oShell SendKeys   FX

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You can find something about this in the Adobe Developer FAQ    It s a PDF document rather than a web page  which I guess is unsurprising in this particular case    The FAQ notes that the use of the command line switches is unsupported   To open a file it s   AcroRd32 exe  lt filename gt    The following switches are available     n - Launch a new instance of Reader even if one is already open  s - Don t show the splash screen  o - Don t show the open file dialog  h - Open as a minimized window  p  lt filename gt  - Open and go straight to the print dialog  t  lt filename gt   lt printername gt   lt drivername gt   lt portname gt  - Print the file the specified printer

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Having  A without additional parameters other than the filename didn t work for me  but the following code worked fine with  n string sfile     quot   help delta-pqca-400-100-300-fc4-user-manual pdf quot   Process myProcess   new Process    myProcess StartInfo FileName    quot AcroRd32 exe quot    myProcess StartInfo Arguments    quot   n  quot     quot   quot  quot    sfile    quot   quot  quot   myProcess Start

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