How to pass multiple words as a search argument on the Acrobat Command Line?

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2 total messages Started by Robert_Oschler Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:48

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Author: Robert_Oschler
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:48

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I am trying to launch Acrobat using a multi-word search parameter on a Windows XP box. However, Acrobat is stripping the spaces between words. For example, I am trying to load Acrobat and have it search for the phrase "vision changes" using a Command Line like this:

C:\>"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /A search="vision changes" c:\temp\theDocument.pdf

When Acrobat loads, it shows the search panel with the phrase "visionchanges" in it. The space between the two words is gone and naturally it can't find the phrase.

I have read both the PDF Command Line parameter documents I could find. This format works fine for URLs, but for Shelling Acrobat on the local system, it doesn't work because of the space stripping problem. I have tried lots of different variants of quote characters, escape characters, even HTML characters like "&nbps;", but nothing works.

Does anyone have an answer?

For the curious here are links to the two PDF documents I found that cover the command line arguments:

 <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDFOpenParameters.pdf>
 <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf>

Thanks,
Robert

Re: How to pass multiple words as a search argument on the Acrobat Command Line?

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Author: Grunty
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:16

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Hey Robert,

Did you note that in the "pdf_open_parameters.pdf" document, it says that the value of the Search parameter is treated as a list of (single) words, not as a string of words (phrase)?

It says it explicitly: "You can search only for single words. You cannot search for a string of words."

PS: I'm replying to your query as a sort of thank you for posting the links to those documents. It helped me to find the way of conditioning how to open a pdf.

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