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[Philip Taylor]

George N. White III wrote:

>
> Unlike UNIX-based OS's, Windows has problems writing to files that are 
> open in another
> program, so Windows editors and AcroRead support "DynamicDataExchange" 
> which allows
> a program that wants to write a PDF to ask AcroRead to close, and then 
> open the file after
> it has been written.   WinEDT can be configured to close the Adobe PDF 
> viewer so that TeX
> software can write a new PDF.  On Windows, TeX Live provides pdfopen 
> and pdfclose
> programs (I think originally from fptex) that are useful in scripts 
> (to bracket programs that
> create a pdf file):
>
> > type sample2e.cmd
> pdfclose sample2e.pdf
> lualatex sample2e
> pdfopen sample2e.pdf

Thank you for that information, George.  Is "AcroRead" "Acrobat Reader" 
or another program ?  I ask because I have just tried "pdfclose" here, 
with a PDF open in Adobe Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader) and it fails as 
follows :

> C:\Windows\System32>pdfclose "Hoi-An vegan menu (separate pages).pdf"
> pdfclose: non existent file Hoi-An vegan menu (separate pages).pdf
> Cannot contact a server.
>
> C:\Windows\System32>
-- 
/Philip Taylor/



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