The plugin would be fairly simple, I would think, and you could make the functionality exactly like the PowerPoint Remote Buddy settings:

Play/Pause: Command-L (Enter/exit full-screen mode) 
Right: Right cursor arrow (next slide) 
Left: Left cursor arrow (previous slide) 
+: Command-shift-up cursor arrow (first slide) 
-: Command-shift-down cursor arrow (last slide)

Since I present in Acrobat fairly frequently, it would be great if you could add this functionality.

Finally, thanks for a great application! I just paid. 

thank you very much for your feedback.

If a few keystrokes is all it takes, I'll definately add support for 
Acrobat Pro. That's just a matter of a couple of minutes of work then.

Nonetheless, to ensure the best integration: is there a demo 
available of Acrobat Pro? And how, regarding presentations, is it 
different to the Adobe Reader?

Thanks in advance and for the support you have already shown!

Felix

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 

that's great news. I'll spend the day at Mac Expo tomorrow and still 
need to prepare a lot of stuff, so I may only get to implement this 
on Saturday and have to ask for patience for responses until 
Friday :-/ ..

Thanks for sharing your observations. The behaviour will use the 
bundle identifier though, to find, launch, activate and identify the 
application and then use OS X directly to emulate the keyboard events 
(probably no AppleScript will be used at all in this).

I'll post to this thread or to you privately as soon as I've finished 
work to show :-)

Thanks again for your support!

Felix