Targeting Acrobat from a script begun in InDesign

My goal:
Export a pdf, have the pdf open in Acrobat and run a preflight setting.
I can get the pdf to open but InDesign is still the active application. What is the code to target Acrobat.
I've tried:
#target "Acrobat"
because I found #target "InDesign" would target the latest InDesign version.
Bonus points: Help with selecting the preflight setting would be helpful too.
Thanks in advance.
John

Hi 2i Geert and thanks for the idea.
I have made it with:
reply = "";
conn = new Socket();
if (conn.open("192.168.91.184:8888)) { // my port and host
conn.write(" GET /myfile.php?" + variousVariable + " HTTP/1.0\n\n");
reply = conn.read(999999);
conn.close;
With this code, the myfile.php seems to been executed.
But I'm still searching for a better solution.

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