Applescript to open a PDF file to a specific page

I'm wondering if Preview (which I don't think can) or Adobe Acrobat (which I think can) can be scripted to open a PDF file to a certain page. Either on 10.7 or 10.6
Thanks

neither acrobat nor preview are directly scriptable. best you can do is some GUI scripting:
set newPage to 25
tell application "System Events"
          tell process "Preview"
                    set frontmost to true
                    tell menu bar 1
                              tell menu "go"
                                        click
                                        tell menu item "Go to Page…"
                                                  click
                                        end tell
                              end tell
                    end tell
                    tell window 1
                              tell sheet 1
                                        tell text field 1
                                                  set value to (newPage as text)
                                        end tell
                                        tell button "OK"
                                                  click
                                        end tell
                              end tell
                    end tell
          end tell
end tell

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