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Topic: Open PDF to specific page via command line?
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 32561
From: pstirk
Date: 1/10/2002 09:08 AM

Thanks for answer, George. I just needed to know one way or the other.

On 1/10/2002 7:45:00 AM, george wrote:
>> Is it possible to launch Acrobat with a command line
>> switch to force it to open to a specific page?
>
>No. But on Windows you can use
>DDE to open a PDF and jump to
>a named destination or page
>number. This means you could
>build a standalone application
>that accepts command line
>arguments and does the job of
>communicating via DDE with
>Acrobat to acomplish what you
>want. More information is in
>the IAC documentation in the
>Acrobat SDK.
>
>George