<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 at 10:25, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 23/11/2021 13:01, Ulrike Fischer
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<pre>Am Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:30:51 +0000 schrieb Philip Taylor (Hellenic
Institute):
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<pre>It is unclear to me what the underlying reason for this discrepancy is.
Using (e.g.,) MS Word, I can save an MS Word document as Adobe PDF. If
the previously-saved version is open in Adobe Acrobat (or in Adobe
Acrobat Reader), MS Word forces the PDF to close and then re-opens the
newly-saved version. It seems to me that the TeX sub-system ought to be
able to accomplish the same thing.
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<pre>Which application exactly should do it? Do you really expect
pdflatex to sent dde commands?</pre>
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Of course not. PdfLaTeX's task is to <i>generate </i>PDFs, not to
display them.<br>
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<pre>It makes imho more sense to delegate this task to the editor. My
editor, winedt, executes the needed commands and so close the pdf if
needed. (I normally use sumatra for viewing which doesn't lock the
pdf, but if I need the Adobe reader to check some feature sumatra
can't handle I can use it.)</pre>
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I spoke of "the TeX sub-system", by which I included (of course)
utilities such as WinEDT, TeXworks, etc.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't forget arara, ltxmake, etc. In my experience, the problem is the Adobe <br></div><div>version specific string that needs to get set when a user installs a new</div><div>Adobe PDF viewer. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I think many TeX... users view generated PDF's in a web browser. Since <br></div><div>many documents will be viewed in browsers by the target audience, that</div><div> makes a lot of sense. For me, on Windows 10 Firefox, I can view a new <br></div><div>version by reloading it.<br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>George N. White III<br><br></div></div></div></div>