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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/11/2021 13:01, Ulrike Fischer
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Am Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:30:51 +0000 schrieb Philip Taylor (Hellenic
Institute):
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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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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 class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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>
-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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