How to communicate with Acrobat from InDesign

Thanks Kasyan! you have done a great help to me. I have tried your script and it works fine till generating pdf. My requirement is little different. I have a field called "Email" in pdf and a action to set for that button to attach with email.

#target indesign
var myIndesignDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myParentFolder = myIndesignDoc.fullName.parent;
var myBaseName = GetFileNameOnly(myIndesignDoc.name);
var myFilePath = myParentFolder.absoluteURI + "/" + myBaseName + ".pdf";
var myFile= new File(myFilePath); 
var mylayerText = myIndesignDoc.layers.item("Text")
var mylayerGraphics = myIndesignDoc.layers.item("Graphics")
var mylayerOnlinePdf = myIndesignDoc.layers.item("Online PDFs")
var mylayerTagline = myIndesignDoc.layers.item("Print tagline")
mylayerText.visible = true
mylayerGraphics.visible = true
mylayerOnlinePdf.visible = true
mylayerTagline.visible = false
var myPDFExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.item("EBLowRes");
app.activeDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, myFile, false, myPDFExportPreset);
//myIndesignDoc.exportFile( ExportFormat.pdfType, myFile, false, "[Smallest File Size]" );
 
var myScript = AcrobatScript.toString() + '\r';
myScript += 'AcrobatScript(\"' + myFilePath + '\");'; 
var bt = new BridgeTalk;
bt.target = "acrobat-9.0";
bt.body = myScript;
bt.send();
 
function AcrobatScript(myFilePath) {
     var myAcrobatDoc = app.openDoc(myFilePath);
 //app.execMenuItem("Email");
  var f = myAcrobatDoc.getField("Email", "button");
  f.setAction("MouseUp", "myAcrobatDoc.mailDoc(true);" );
     //myAcrobatDoc.mailDoc({
        //  bUI: false, // don't show dialog box
         // cTo: "someone@somewhere.com", // e-mail address 
          //cSubject: "This message was sent you by script", // subject line
          //cMsg: "Here goes some message text."// message body
     //});
     myAcrobatDoc.closeDoc( false );
}
 
function GetFileNameOnly(myFileName) {
     var myString = "";
     var myResult = myFileName.lastIndexOf(".");
     if (myResult == -1) {
          myString = myFileName;
     }
     else {
          myString = myFileName.substr(0, myResult);
     }
     return myString;
}

I tried this little modified code and it generates the pdf but does not set action for that particular button.

The code I am using in Acrobat to set action is

var f = this.getField("Mail", "button");
f.setAction("MouseUp", "this.mailDoc(true);" );

Rather than going to Acrobat and run this script manually is this possible to combine this action within Indesign script? 

Please help me.

Regards,

Muthuraj. D

Kasyan,

Thanks for sharing this useful script. However, I can't get it to work because apparently Acrobat doesn't like my email program. After the PDF is created and loaded in Acrobat, nothing happens. When I try to attach the PDF manually (File > Attach to Email), Acrobat says ""Acrobat is unable to connect to your email program." I've poked around in the preferences but can't seem to find any way to tell Acrobat what my email program is (Opera's mail client). Any idea?

Another thing: to construct the PDF name for the current document, could you not simply say the following?

myFilePath = String (myIndesignDoc.fullName).replace (/indd$/, "pdf");

Thanks,

Peter

I can't seem to make it work. It produces a PDF but then I don't see any activity or emailing it seems.

CS3 and Acro 8 and Acro 9