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Adobe Reader Command Line ParametersAcroRd32.exe /p pathname — Start Adobe Reader and display the Print dialog box. AcroRd32.exe /t path "printername" "drivername" "portname" — Start Adobe Reader and print a file while suppressing the Print dialog box. The path must be fully specified.
Open a PDF file containing a scanned image in Acrobat for Mac or PC. Click on the “Edit PDF” tool in the right pane. Acrobat automatically applies optical character recognition (OCR) to your document and converts it to a fully editable copy of your PDF. Click the text element you wish to edit and start typing.
Choose Edit > Find (Ctrl/Command+F). Type the text you want to search for in the text box on the Find toolbar. To replace text, click Replace With to expand the toolbar, then type the replacement text in the Replace With text box. Finds only occurrences of the complete word you type in the text box.
Run the Acrobat Customization WizardGo to Transform > Generate Transform. Generate your transform file. Go to Transform>Generate a transform and you're ready to create and save your MST file for deployment in the same folder all your extracted files from step two reside.
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 <filename>
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 <filename> - Open and go straight to the print dialog/t <filename> <printername> <drivername> <portname> - Print the file the specified printer.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&navpanes=1=OpenActions&search=batch" PdfFile
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.
Call this after the print job has returned:
oShell.AppActivate "Adobe Reader"
oShell.SendKeys "%FX"
Having /A without additional parameters other than the filename didn't work for me, but the following code worked fine with /n
string sfile = @".\help\delta-pqca-400-100-300-fc4-user-manual.pdf";
Process myProcess = new Process();
myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "AcroRd32.exe";
myProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = " /n " + "\"" + sfile + "\"";
myProcess.Start();
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