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From: Bala
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:31

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I have several e-books that prompt for password when I open them.
I'm sick and tired of having to type the long password every time.
Does the Adobe Reader have a password command line option, e.g:
AcroRd32 ebook.pdf /password="the password"

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