Opening a PDF file with password in command line.

[David Choi]

Opening a PDF file with password in command line.

I trid this : CMD > Acrobat.exe /a "password=chs1234" C:\my\today.pdf

acrobat application is opened, and then, still asking the password.

please help. Thank you

[Bernd Alheit]

This is not possible. Possible parameters are defined here:

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/AcrobatDC_pdf_open_parameters.pdf 

[Eric_Syversen]

Foxit can do this for you.

@ echo off

set "PWD=<YourPDFpassword"

"FoxitPDFReader.exe" "Input.pdf" /pwd %PWD%