JavaScript does not work in Acrobat?

I did a lot of scripts in InDesign since a few months, but also a little Illustrator and I learned a heck of a lot about JavaScript and ExtendScript.  I have even a very strong hold on ScriptUI!  So, I now have a functional, 1700-line script that responds to use in our society.  Now, I need to write a new script for InDesign to accomplish a different goal.  This new script will eventually call Acrobat (probably with BridgeTalk) and perform a couple of functions before the end of the script.

I need Acrobat to perform tasks are theoretically very simple (open a file, a page to replace and save/close the file).  This should be extremely easy to do once I learned the vocabulary of Acrobat JavaScript.  To this end, I read up on how to script Acrobat.  Unfortunately, it seems not anywhere that simple scripting InDesign and Illustrator.

On the one hand, the ExtendScript Toolkit is now unnecessary since Acrobat has an integrated "Javascript Console".  It would be perfectly fine, except my console seems to be completely broken.  I IX Acrobat and Acrobat X on the Mac, and both exhibit the same behavior.  Once I started it (and it was enough just trying to figure out how to turn on and start the console in Acrobat X hard!), I type in a simple "3 + 4" in the console and press command + entry (since I don't have a keyboard extended fancy Mac with a keypad), as indicated in the guide of Thom Parker on AcrobatUsers.

Nothing happens.

I tried other things, for example by selecting the line of code in the first place, by pressing CTRL + ENTER instead, with another line of code, such as "console.println("Hello.");", etc..  Nothing that I seems to work.  What I am doing wrong?

Try EnterEnter in JS instead of Cmd consoleshift... And make sure you

have the code selected by.

If it still doesn't work there might be a problem with your installation of

Acrobat and you must run a repair installation.

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