Can I ask Acrobat Pro XI to open the PDF document through other applications?

Question

As I need to read help-documentation for Stata, I need to set Acrobat as the default PDF viewer. However, compared to Sumatra, the main drawback is that I can no longer obtain the following menu.

Is there a way to create such menu-entries in Acrobat, so that I can open other PDF editors from Acrobat? The use-case is: first, have Stata open the help-file correctly in Acrobat; and in Acrobat, with this file under view, open the same file (and show the same page, at best) in an external PDF viewer.

Answer 1

Is there a way to create such menu-entries in Acrobat, so that I can open other PDF editors from Acrobat?

No. Acrobat does allow menu items to be added via folder level JavaScript but you can't use it to launch other applications in that way. You can cause PDF files to open, but they'd get opened by the default viewer... which is Acrobat... and defeats your purpose.