Javascript Access to Adobe Reader Plugin

This is more of a developer question but I thought I would give it a shot because I have yet to find any documentation.
Does Safari have scripting access to the Adobe Reader plugin?
The following works in IE because printWithDialog(); function is revealed to IE javascript when a PDF is embeded.
javascript:
var thePdf = document.getElementById("printFrame");
thePdf.printWithDialog();
embed in the body of the web page:
<embed height="400" width="370" name="printFrame" id="printFrame" src="theFile.pdf" />
Can I do something similiar in Safari?
Thank you,
-jscott

Yes it does. It works on the website I support. We do it thru a javascript popwin and it loads in all browsers.

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