It turns out that Acrobat Pro, Actobat Standard, and Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) all have this same functionality for full-screen presentations and all use the same keyboard commands I listed in my posting. So, if you want to test out a RemoteBuddy plugin, you can just use the free Reader from Adobe's Web site.

One minor complcation is in figuring out how to launch the Acrobat application. For example, the latest U.S. version of Acrobat Pro is called "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.app". As you can probably guess, every version of the program and every flavor (Reader, Standard, and Pro) will probably have a different name. The solution is to use Apple's Launch Services and lauch the application by creator code. All versions of Acrobat/Adobe Reader share the same creator code "CARO" and launch Services seems to be able to figure out which to launch depending on what is installed on a user's system.

Using AppleScript, here is how I would do it:

tell application "Finder" 
open application file id "CARO" 
end tell

Hope that is helpful.

Last edited: 07.06.2006 16:34:20