JS: How to close Adobe reader/Acrobat?

You're going to have to use AppleScript / VB for that...

Harbs

How are you going to know which process is running and what documents are open in it? If this is to close a PDF after export then you have the option NOT to auto open…

That may actually turn out to be more trouble than its worth… Once the pdf has auto-opened Acrobat is the frontmost process and your 'button' to close documents in both apps will need to be at the front of these… Are you mac or pc?

Here is an example:

#target indesign
var acroScript = 'var d = app.activeDocs;\r';
acroScript += 'for ( var i in d ) d[i].closeDoc( true );';
var bt = new BridgeTalk;
bt.target = "acrobat";
bt.body = acroScript;
bt.send();

It closes all open documents in Acrobat without saving. However it  works only on PC and only in certain versions of InDesign and Acrobat. (I tested it at work, in InDesign CS3 and Acrobat 8 Pro, on Windows XP)

But at home computer I have Acrobat X version 10.1.1 and bridgetalk doesn't "see" it.

Note that closeDoc method has an optional parameter -- bNoSave -- whether to close the document without saving. If false (the default), the user is prompted to save the document if it has been modified. If true, the document is closed without prompting the user and without saving, even if the document has been modified.

Hope this helps.

Kasyan

I don't have CS4 on PC so can't test it myself. But you can make a quick test to find out if BridgeTalk "sees" acrobat:

BridgeTalk.getSpecifier("acrobat");

It should return either acrobat-9.0 or null.

You can also run BridgeTalk.getTargets(); to get the list of messaging-enabled applications.

Here is a thread where this topic is discussed in detail.

Kas

You are out of luck then. It won't work.