Adobe Reader API

Question

Regarding Adobe Reader API, I know it's very limited, but all I need to do is open a file and go to a particular page. I've tried:
With AcroPDF1
.LoadFile "C:\test.pdf"
.setCurrentPage 3
End With
which gives me "Runtime Error 424, Object Required," and I've tried:
Dim AcroPDDoc As Object
Set AcroPDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
Set pdDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
which gives me "Runtime error 429, Activex component can't create object."
I've made sure all References to anything Adobe or Acrobat are checked off (I'm programming in MS Access using VB).
What am I missing?
Thanks.
(PS I do own Acrobat Standard that I use on my office machine and I can't get the code to work there either. But I need to be able to use Reader for the project I'm working on.)

Answer 1

Now this was an interesting thread...
I have a similar problem, but I am not so familiar with VB or javascript or the Windows API, so I would appreciate explicit examples.
I would like to make a .bat script (yes, DOS, under Win XP) to open a .pdf document using Acrobat Reader (v. 8.1.0 in my case). If the document is already open, I would like to close it and reopen it.
Today, I do this with
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.1\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" test.pdf
which works. However, it also locks the file for editing. I therefore need a way (from the command line) to either close test.pdf or open it read-only.
I realize that this (at least closing the document) should be accessible via Adobe Reader API or Acrobat IAC, possibly through the javascript command app.openDoc() (I have looked into the documents mentioned above), but I have no clue about how to do this from the command line. Anyone care to help me out with an example?
Anders Hägglund