In recent versions of Acrobat, I don't think you can do it- unless you are running acrobat in a web page (which it sounds like you are not doing). This is the best answer I found in a brief web search:
http://www.acrotips.com/acrofaq/general/index.php
There are non-BuddyAPI ways of doing it, though. Integration New Media make a few plugins for acrobat (PDFXtra and Impressario). They both allow you to actually create a pdf sprite on the Director stage, as opposed to in a separate application window. And you can control the page displayed through lingo (along with a whole host of other pdf settings)
</from BuddyAPI forum post>
Or, using BuddyApi-
You can always open it normally and then send the following keys Ctl-shift-N, PageNumber, Enter
HTH, Stephen
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote the following on 5/19/2005 9:15 AM:
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[WinXP, Acrobat6, MX2004] I'm having trouble opening a pdf to a specific page, and I used to be able to do this. Here's my code:
theApp = baShortFileName(baFindApp("pdf")) -- "C:\PROGRA~1\Adobe\ACROBA~1.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" (opens Acrobat from "Start|Run...") thePath = baShortFileName(thePath) -- "F:\UNIVER~1\articles\PERIOD~1\RECORD~1.PDF" (opens doc in Acrobat from "Start|Run...") theAppString = theApp && thePath && "/A page=8" -- "C:\PROGRA~1\Adobe\ACROBA~1.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe F:\UNIVER~1\articles\PERIOD~1\RECORD~1.PDF /A page=8" theResult = baRunProgram(theAppString, "Normal", FALSE) -- Acrobat Reader Error: "There was an error opening this document. The path does not exist."
Huh? theApp and theAppString, without openingParams, both work, so why not here with the /A command line switch?
puzzled, - Michael M.
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