How to pass multiple words as a search argument on the Acrobat Command Line?

I am trying to launch Acrobat using a multi-word search parameter on a Windows XP box. However, Acrobat is stripping the spaces between words. For example, I am trying to load Acrobat and have it search for the phrase "vision changes" using a Command Line like this:
C:\>"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /A search="vision changes" c:\temp\theDocument.pdf
When Acrobat loads, it shows the search panel with the phrase "visionchanges" in it. The space between the two words is gone and naturally it can't find the phrase.
I have read both the PDF Command Line parameter documents I could find. This format works fine for URLs, but for Shelling Acrobat on the local system, it doesn't work because of the space stripping problem. I have tried lots of different variants of quote characters, escape characters, even HTML characters like "&nbps;", but nothing works.
Does anyone have an answer?
For the curious here are links to the two PDF documents I found that cover the command line arguments:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDFOpenParameters.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf
Thanks,
Robert

Hey Robert,
Did you note that in the "pdf_open_parameters.pdf" document, it says that the value of the Search parameter is treated as a list of (single) words, not as a string of words (phrase)?
It says it explicitly: "You can search only for single words. You cannot search for a string of words."
PS: I'm replying to your query as a sort of thank you for posting the links to those documents. It helped me to find the way of conditioning how to open a pdf.

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    FROM all_objects;
    -- check the format of the multiline text item (col)
    SELECT * FROM t WHERE ROWNUM < 4;
    -- a type for the function below
    CREATE TYPE string_tab AS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(255);
    -- this function takes a string and cuts out each word, idetifying words
    -- as being separated by any whitespace.  it returns a collection
    CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION string_to_tab(
      p_string IN VARCHAR2) RETURN string_tab IS
      l_string LONG DEFAULT
        RTrim(regexp_replace(p_string,'[[:space:]]+',' ')) || ' ';
      l_data string_tab := string_tab();
      n NUMBER;
    BEGIN
      LOOP
        EXIT WHEN l_string IS NULL;
        n := InStr(l_string, ' ');
        l_data.extend;
        l_data(l_data.Count) := LTrim(RTrim(SubStr(l_string, 1, n - 1)));
        l_string := SubStr(l_string, n + 1);
      END LOOP;
      RETURN l_data;
    END string_to_tab;
    -- selecting from t where ANY of the words in the search text has
    -- a match in the multiline field (as a word or part of a word), so SYS
    -- matches to MDSYS and SYSTEM
    SELECT DISTINCT
      t.rn, t.col
    FROM
      t,
      (SELECT column_value
       FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS   INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
    WHERE InStr(t.col,x.column_value) > 0;
    -- selecting from t where ALL of the words in the search text has
    -- a match in the multiline field (as a word or part of a word), so SYS
    -- matches to MDSYS and SYSTEM
    SELECT rn, col FROM(
    SELECT
      t.rn, t.col, cnt_x, Count(*) cnt
    FROM
      t,
      (SELECT column_value , Count(1) over(PARTITION BY 1)cnt_x
       FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS   INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
    WHERE InStr(t.col,x.column_value) > 0
    GROUP BY t.rn, t.col, cnt_x
    WHERE cnt = cnt_x;
    -- selecting from t where ANY of the words in the search text
    -- match a word in the multiline field, so SYS matches only to SYS
    SELECT DISTINCT
      t.rn, t.col
    FROM
      t,
      (TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab(t.col) AS string_tab))) t2,
      (SELECT column_value
       FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS   INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
    WHERE t2.column_value = x.column_value;
    -- selecting from t where ALL of the words in the search text
    -- match a word in the multiline field, so SYS matches only to SYS
    SELECT rn, col FROM(
    SELECT
      t.rn, t.col, cnt_x, Count(*) cnt
    FROM
      t,
      (TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab(t.col) AS string_tab))) t2,
      (SELECT column_value , Count(1) over(PARTITION BY 1)cnt_x
       FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS   INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
    WHERE t2.column_value = x.column_value
    GROUP BY t.rn, t.col, cnt_x
    WHERE cnt = cnt_x;For your application you would replace 'SYS INDEX' with a variable (the search field). You can use upper() and wildcards for case insensitive & 'fuzzy' searches. You might need to modify the function so it removes other delimiters such as commas and colons.

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