Open to Page - page number based on filename via Javascript

To answer your question, yes, it's possible, but only using a script that identifies that number in the file's name when it's opened and then switches to that page.
It's even possible to apply this script to multiple files, but only if you have Acrobat Pro with the capability to execute batch sequences. You wrote that you have a very old version of Acrobat Pro, so I'm not sure if you'll be able to do it without upgrading.

Thanks a million, I successfully completed my script – the Open to Page part looks something like this:

//Add the page switcher code to pdf
this.addScript({cName: "Open To Page Number", cScript: "var openToPageNr = parseInt(this.path.slice(this.path.length-8,this.path.length-4),10)-1;\n this.pageNum = openToPageNr; \n"});

Which basically adds a script to a pdf (this.addScript),
- which gets the last 4 characters of the filename (this.path.slice),
- converts it to a number (parseInt),
- and then jumps to this page number (this.pageNum).

(later the script saves the files under different filenames in a loop, to make the script attachment permanent).

Tomorrow we will test this in the work environment, which is at the moment based on Acrobat 5, but it will be upgraded to CS5.5 soon, so compatibility won't be an issue.

Thanks again,
Best,
Laszlo

Hi everybody,
I have a similar task to perform as described by Laszlo.
We produce a pdf - file containing text in 3 different languages. In order to present the reader the text in his language respectively, we copy the file twice and set the initial starting page number, the initial zoomfactor (fit window - width and the initial title (document title instead of file name) manually.
We've automated the process a little bit by using the actions functionality, but would like to have a fully automated process, i.e. setting these entries automatically (preferably vb.net)
I could not imagine this to be so extremely difficult, but did not find any solution by studying almost every docs / tutorials available.

Therefore, I would highly appreciate your kind advise how to store the information of these 3 entries in a pdf file automatically.

Many thanks for your help in advance
Kind regards

C. W. (Zurich, Switzerland)

I can imagine this being done with a batch action that saves three copies of each file, each one with a different doc-level script that sets the right page and zoom factor. I'm assuming that the length of all document is the same, ie that if you have a 9-page document, then the first one begins at page 1, the second at page 4 and the last at page 7. If that's not the case, then it becomes more complicated...