App.openDoc issue

In prior versions of Acrobat, calling "app.openDoc({cPath:pathToPDF, bHidden:false})" would open the desired document in Acrobat with all tools available. However, in Acrobat X, the first time I call this method Acrobat opens with a menu bar, but only a subset of the tools. Form tools are completely unavailable and can't be accessed unless I close Acrobat and re-open the document manually. The second time I call the method Acrobat opens with no menu bar at all. I don't understand why the behavior is different from one call to another or why the tools are limited. Is there a work-around for this problem? Also, I noticed the same behavior when launching documents inside a browser window. Any insight is appreciated.

That sounded like a reasonable assumption, however in Read mode you have no tool/menu bars. When the document opens, I actually have a menu bar (the first time I call the method), but "Tools" is missing and can't be added back. I can press control+H to enter and exit reading mode, but the Tools are still not available.

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Is there any chance that the application is being run from Developer Suite? In other words, is Developer Suite installed on the client machine and hosting the app?
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Problem with checking file existence by using app.openDoc

Hi Folks,
I have to create a script for a big project with many PDF's. (Just like Ingrimm - it's the same company http://forums.adobe.com/thread/747022?tstart=0) This PDF's are made of scanned images. I need to rename the files to names that are extracted from within the file. This is working without problems.
Now there could be the case, that a filename exists already. I don't want the files to be overwritten, so the idea is, that already existing filenames are saved as filename_1, filename_2, etc... (Before I merged them, but this isn't what is wanted.)
For this reason I need to use app.openDoc to check, if a file exists. Yesterday my script worked fine, but after starting it today, I discovered that it started again to overwrite files which are already existing.
I added an app.alert to my catch method to see what error is thrown. The message is: 'NotAllowedError: Security settings prevent access to this property or method.'.
After using google, I found out, that Acrobat is not finding any files. But I checked and there are files which should be doubled.
I have no idea how to fix that problem. Anybody here who can help me?
Regards,
Steffi
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* @param rematch string which should be searched in document
* @return null if rematch is not found or string if rematch is found
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Sorry, I marked it as bold text but unfortunately it happens to be unformatted
It's the app.openDoc within my function checlIfFileExists:
try {
        if( n == 0) {
           var checkDoc = app.openDoc({cPath : "../GAG-out/"+filename+"-001.pdf"});
        } else {
           var checkDoc = app.openDoc({cPath : "../GAG-out/"+filename+"-001_"+n+".pdf"});
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App.openDoc works in Acrobat, not in Reader

In a folder-level script I'm using app.openDoc to open an existing PDF and extract an icon from it. The following code works in Acrobat 11 but in Reader X I get a NotAllowedError: Security settings prevent access to this property or method error.
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Any ideas?

It gets called from the top level of the javascript file. Here's an example -- the exact contents of my javascript file -- where I simply load the icon and display the width in a pop up alert. If I open a PDF from the file system then this generates the same NotAllowedError during the call to app.openDoc(). But, if I launch Reader and wait before opening the PDF, the code runs fine and the correct icon width gets alerted to me.
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App.openDoc error in browser

I have created a javascript that I use to add links to a pdf that opens another pdf file. The script works fine in Acrobat and Reader, but not when the pdf is displayed through a web site using Internet Explorer. I set the disclosed attribute and have gone over the reference and forums. I attached the code, below. Does anybody have any ideas? Thank you.
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Have you looked at the contents of the URI address for the link?
Is the URI address available to the user on the web?
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Example 5 (Acrobat 7.0)
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Using app.openDoc with LC field as path

Using LC ES2, Acrobat X.
I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. Synopsis: I have a LC form that I use to import parent/child XML data. This form is a report, but it is basically a summary of a group of PDFs that I send off to my clients (on CD). Each child record has a field containing the name of its corresponding PDF file. I have been trying my best to make a link that will open the child file in a new Acrobat window. I've used app.openDoc, but cannot seem to pass my field into the cPath. I've even tried using the "address" of the field containing the path. Example:
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I've tried the device independent paths as well as just "filename.pdf", where both source and targets were in the same folder.
I thought one of my attempts was going to work, but I got the "NotAllowedError: Security settings prevent access to this property or method." message in the debugger.
This brings me to disclosed=true. Is is still the case that all of the target PDFs that I am linking to need to have this property set? Or, am I missing something alltogether here?

Sorry, I marked it as bold text but unfortunately it happens to be unformatted
It's the app.openDoc within my function checlIfFileExists:
try {
        if( n == 0) {
           var checkDoc = app.openDoc({cPath : "../GAG-out/"+filename+"-001.pdf"});
        } else {
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App.openDoc unpredictable results

Hi
I'm trying to create a simple button that opens a PDF attachment (one of several). I use the following code:
app.openDoc("my.pdf");
This worked for one PDF but not others, all of which I have created in the same way. I tried inserting this.disclosed = true in the attachment doc scripts, (and tried app.this.disclosed). But this makes no difference. Strangely, I found that opening the attached file from the Attachments panel, running the PDF optimiser on it as far as saving, and saving the file in a new location then cancelling the optimiser, caused the attached files to load once I returned to the main PDF. However, on saving and closing the main PDF and reopening it, I'm back to square one, but no files open now, not even the original attachment. And now I can't use the optimiser workaround to make the others work. I've tried creating new files from scratch and reading the Acrobat scripting resources, but can find nothing to help me.
Many thanks
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I think I've solved it.
This works:
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This script helped me see in the JS debugger what attachment names were in use:
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How To app.openDoc & file exists

I'm creating a pdf named "ABC.pdf"....
Open ABC.pdf. It include JavaScript
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And, if file doesn't exist. false....
var otherDoc = app.openDoc("GHI.pdf", this);
I do not understand how to write this divergence order.
Would you teach who it is?

It's not that easy... First of all, the files you're trying to open have to be disclosed. Is that the case?
Also, you can't use openDoc in the Doc Open event of another document, as is specfied in the JS API Reference.
What you can do, though, is place the code somewhere similar, like in the Page Open action of the first page. Of course, then you'll need to make sure that it doesn't get launched each time someone scrolls to that page.
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Hi,
being a bit further with my work on app.openDoc thanks to the help of this forum, I'm a bit puzzled about the following problem:
var mainDoc = app.openDoc(mainDocPath);
//var mainDoc = app.openDoc("/C/myDoc.pdf");
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In this example "mainDocPath" is a valid path and the document opens. Anyway mainDoc is being evaluated as "undefined".
When I use the commented line instead, the alert displays "[Doc_Object]" as I would expect.
What is going wrong here?
Thanks for any help.

I have been breaking down complexity a bit further.
Two documents: C:\Control.pdf and C:\Main.pdf.
The control document has a document level javascript "TestCall" with content:
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TestCall();
The main document has a javascript "SetDisclosed" with content:
function SetDisclosed()
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When I run the control javascript while the document is open, everything is fine and it opens the main document. If the javascript runs on document initialization, I get the "NotAllowedError".
If I change the line "mainDoc = app.openDoc("/C/Main.pdf");" to "mainDoc = trustedOpenDoc("/C/Main.pdf");", i.e. running the folder level script
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everything is still fine when run from the opened control document.
When it runs at document initialization, I get an error dialog stating that an error occurred when opening the document because of an "invalid action object" (this is in german language and I don't know the exact words that it will show in an english language version).
That can't be the intended way of functionality, can it? When reading through the forums, I get a feeling like many people do what I want to do and there is only one more little hint missing and there will be prospering landscapes for my programming efforts if this could be solved. Unfortunately I can't find the point myself and can't see sense and meaning in that ugly behaviour.
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