JavaScript SaveAs: Acrobat Pro vs. Reader

Hi Guys,
My Privilaged / Protetected JavaScript SaveAs function works perfectly in AcrobatPro.
The problem is that it will start to run in Reader, but the SaveAs won't execute.
Ideas?

Within Acrobat Pro I run the following code within the console, indicating
the conversion to text and tiff is allowed in Acrobat Pro.
How can I confirm the conversion to text and tiff allowed in Reader? How
to get to the Reader console?
Here's the code:
for ( var i = 0; i < app.fromPDFConverters.length; i++)
console.println(app.fromPDFConverters[i]);
And here's the results:
com.adobe.acrobat.eps
com.adobe.acrobat.xlsx
com.adobe.acrobat.html
com.adobe.acrobat.jpeg
com.adobe.acrobat.jp2k
com.callas.preflight.pdfa
com.callas.preflight.pdfe
com.callas.preflight.pdfx
com.adobe.acrobat.png
com.adobe.acrobat.ps
com.adobe.acrobat.pptx
com.adobe.acrobat.rtf
com.adobe.acrobat.accesstext
com.adobe.acrobat.plain-text <---- This is what I need
com.adobe.acrobat.tiff <---- This is also what I need
com.adobe.acrobat.doc
com.adobe.acrobat.docx
com.adobe.acrobat.xml-1-00
com.adobe.acrobat.spreadsheet
true

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