Does Adobe Reader Disable window.close()?

Help! I open a window using
onclick='javascript:MyWindow=window.open("Meeting.pdf")'
But the following fails when trying to automatically close that window
<body onunload="MyWindow.close()">
This same code works fine when MyWindow does not have a PDF file (for instance, onclick='javascript:MyWindow=window.open("Picture.jpg")' works fine).
Almost seems as if Adobe Reader is disabling .close
Any thoughts?

Please repost in the Acrobat Scripting forum.

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[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
In a message dated 05/06/2013 14:35:32 Paris, Madrid (heure d’été),
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