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Is there a way to access arbitrary Acrobat program arguments in JavaScript?

  • January 23, 2018
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I have a folder-level JavaScript file installed in the user javascript folder. I'm wondering if there's a way to pass a URL as a parameter when launching Acrobat and to have the folder-level JavaScript code access the URL so that it can use that particular URL. Is this possible?

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Correct answer Thom Parker

No


Ok, there is a way, but it's old and I haven't tried it.  There are a set of command line parameters you can use when opening a PDF.

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf

One of these is a references to an FDF file. The FDF file could easily contain either a script that sets a document level variable, or it could fill a hidden form field.

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Joel Geraci
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Joel GeraciCommunity Expert
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January 23, 2018

Is the URL local (file:///...) or HTTP?

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cschmelterAuthor
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January 23, 2018

HTTP

Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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January 23, 2018

No

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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January 23, 2018

Not really. You can access a web-service using the Net.HTTP object, but you can't just access a URL and use its contents (unless you convert it to a PDF file first, which is very tricky since it's done asynchronously).

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