Applescript to open a PDF file to a specific page

neither acrobat nor preview are directly scriptable. best you can do is some GUI scripting:

set newPage to 25

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Preview"

set frontmost to true

tell menu bar 1

tell menu "go"

click

tell menu item "Go to Page…"

click

end tell

end tell

end tell

tell window 1

tell sheet 1

tell text field 1

set value to (newPage as text)

end tell

tell button "OK"

click

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

Twtwtw's script requires that you enable access for assistive devices in the Universal Access System Preference pane. You could avoid that with the following script:

set theFile to choose file of type "pdf" with prompt "Please choose a PDF file."

display dialog "Enter the number of the page you want to go to." default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2

set thePageNumber to text returned of result

tell application "Finder"

open theFile using alias "Macintosh HD:Applications:Preview.app:"

end tell

tell application "Preview" to activate

tell application "System Events"

keystroke "g" using {option down, command down} -- ⌥⌘G

keystrokethePageNumber

delay 1

keystrokereturn

end tell

Ah, yeah, that's much easier. 🙂

If using Acrobat then the PDF file has initial view preferences that you can set… Page to view being one of them…

I am completely new to OSX and Apple

tell application "Adobe Reader"

open file "My:Path:myFile.pdf"

end tell

Any help would be awesome.

Thank you,

James

PS I forgot to add these Open Paramaters you can just add page=5(or whatever page you want) to have the pdf open to that page.