Opening a PDF File with Arguments

[danrg7]

I am familiar with the launch document command which is great for opening pdf's, but I would like to open a pdf file to a specific location, and that requires arguments. Can I pass arguments to the launch document command? Or is there a way to look up what application would launch that file and then use that from the command line?

[SparkOut]

I believe the "launch document" command would have exactly the same effect as double-clicking a file - ie it would open that file with the appropriately registered application. I don't think parameters can be passed.
However you can easily start an application and pass it the arguments you need using the shell commands.

Something like

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set the hideConsoleWindows to true
   get shell ("start" && quote & quote && quote & "theFileName.pdf" & quote && quote & "argument1" & quote && quote & "argument2" & quote)
   --the "extra" quotes at the beginning are because the first quoted parameter passed to "start" 
   --are used as the console window title - so there's an empty "title" parameter there.
   --You may find you need to wrap the whole lot in another set of quotes, but that will be a case
   --of your own experimentation to tell you whether it's needed.

[danrg7]

The problem is that I need to pass arguments to the pdf reader executable. To do this I got the command to run for pdf files from the registry:

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put queryRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document\Shell\Open\Command\") into pdfcmd

And then I appended the parameters to pdfcmd and ran that in the shell.