Open a pdf file to a specific location

Dear friends,

I would like to support a dialog with a help button that needs to open a pdf file to a specific location, is defined by number of page or (better) by named Destination.

var helpFile = File($.fileName.replace (/\.jsx(?:bin)?$/i , ".pdf"));
OpenPDF (helpFile, "FMcalccalculations"); // named dest = M8.newlink.FMcalccalculations

function OpenPDF (fileName, destination) {
  if (fileName.exists) {
    fileName.execute("nameddest=M8.newlink." + destination);
  }
}

This is to open the pdf file on the first page.

How can I pass parameters - not knowing what pgm will open the pdf file (depending on the installation of the user)?

I've seen (IMHO) using an intermediary VBscriptthat crunch, but I have not yet tested this approach. As far as I understand that this would imply a VSscript for each destination in the pdf file.

All ideas are wolcome.

Klaus

Well, friends, I found a solution on StackOverflow.com: in German, we say such a solution 'von fun druch die brust projectiles' fur.

ExtendScript:

// Open PDF at named destination

var theFile = "PDFwithDestination.pdf";           // for my case: in same path as this script
var destination = "M8.newlink.FMcalcseries"       // needs to be found in pdf, because the 8 is not a constant
OpenPdfAtDestination (theFile, destination);

function OpenPdfAtDestination (pdfFile, namedDestination) { // ====================================
var path = GetScriptPath () + "\\";
var location = "nameddest=" + namedDestination;   // see "Parameters for Opening PDF Files"

// Call OpenPdfWithParameters, according to
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20862868/file-execute-is-not-executing-my-script-how-to-debug-this-issue/20863131#20863131
// A workaround to pass arguments is to create another file, that calls this script with arguments.
// Yawar 2015-03-15

// Create the calling batch file
var tempFile = File (path + "tempScript.bat");
  tempFile.open("w");
  tempFile.encoding = "UTF-8";
  tempFile.writeln (path + "OpenPdfWithparameters.exe " + '/A ' + location + ' "' + path + pdfFile + '"');
  tempFile.close();
  tempFile.execute ();
  tempFile.delete;
}

function GetScriptPath () { //=====================================================================
// Get the script path
// Returns path in the function
  var scrPath, newPath, winPath, lastBSlash;

// $.fileName: script path (including the file-name of the script)
// platform independent format e.g. /e/_DDDprojects/FM+EN-escript/escript
  scrPath = $.fileName;
  winPath = new File (scrPath);
  scrPath = winPath.fsName;                       // get Windows format
  lastBSlash = scrPath.lastIndexOf("\\");         // \ needs escaping
  scrPath = scrPath.substring(0, lastBSlash);
  return scrPath;                                 // no final \ !
} // --- end GetScriptPath

AutoHotKey script - must be converted into an exe file:

; OpenPdfWithParameters.ahk
; 2016-04-15 Klaus Daube

; Get the arguments from the caller (works only in compiled version!)
parmList =
Loop, %0%  ; For each parameter:
{
  param := %A_Index%
  parmList = %parmList% `n%param%
}
; MsgBox, Number of parameters: %0%`n%parmList%

; let's find the relevant application
RegRead, sDefaultApp, HKCR, .pdf
RegRead, sDefaultAct, HKCR, %sDefaultApp%\shell
RegRead, sDefaultCommand, HKCR, %sDefaultApp%\shell\%sDefaultAct%\command
StringTrimRight, command, sDefaultCommand, 5 ; remove the "%1"
; MsgBox %command%                      ; "H:\Adobe\Acrobat11\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe"

; open the pdf with the parameters according to "Parameters for Opening PDF Files"
Run, %command% %parmList%

This works, however a flicker is created due to the execution of the batch file.

Tags: Adobe FrameMaker

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