[XeTeX] Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat/Reader, Microsoft Word, XeTeX, and (x)dvipdfm(x).

[George N. White III]

On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 08:45, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk>
wrote:

> Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
> use
>
> pdfclose --help
>
> It will tell you how to setup a DDE-name. They change every year. I
> have currently AcroviewR20
>
>
> I use AcroViewR21, after updating AdobeReader DC this year.


> Thank you Ulrike — in fact, I had just done that, but I learned as a
> side-effect that "only documents opened by `pdfopen' can be closed by
> `pdfclose'", which is something of a bummer in that almost all of my PDFs
> will have been opened either by the (x)dvipdfm(x) back-end of XeTeX, or by
> TeXworks ...
>

I use it mainly to run test cases in batch scripts.   If you are running
TeX from an editor, you
might be able to hack the configuration to run a cmd file or otherwise
bracket the TeX program
with the pdfclose/pdfopen commands.




> --
> *Philip Taylor*
>


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George N. White III
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