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Is it possible to open a pdf file with acrobat on a Mac from Python or terminal and have it navigate to a specific page or section? Something akin to this bash command in Windows:
AcroRd32.exe /A "page=3" "file.pdf"
According to this documentation, it appears to be possible on Mac if we know the location of the Adobe Acrobat executable: pdfobject.com/pdf/pdf_open_parameters_acro8.pdf#page=5 If that is the case, then where is the executable? ("Adobe Acrobat.app" or "open -a 'Adobe Acrobat.app' " did not work).
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My understanding of this is that what we know as .exe on Windows is 'compiled' in the app file.
When a user launches an software on a Mac, the app is 'expanded' and the equivalent of a .exe is then started.
This makes it impossible to reference from a source code point of view.
I am opened to be corrected buy experts on this thread. thanks
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