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

[Akira Kakuto]

Dear Philip,

On 2021/05/28 20:44, Philip Taylor wrote:
> 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 ...

pdfclose --help shows on Windows:

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Usage:
	pdfopen  --file <filename> [--page <page>]
	pdfopen  [--page <page>] <filename>
		       Opens <filename> (at page <page> if available)
		             in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
	pdfclose --file <filename>
	pdfclose <filename>
	         Closes <filename> in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
	pdfclose --all
	         Closes all documents in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Beware: only documents opened by `pdfopen' can be closed
         by `pdfclose'.
Option:
	         --rx  : Prefer the server Adobe Reader X.
	         --ax  : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat X.
	         --rxi : Prefer the server Adobe Reader XI.
	         --axi : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat XI.
	         --rxv : Prefer the server Adobe Reader XV.
	         --axv : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat XV.
	         --r10 : Same as --rx.
	         --a10 : Same as --ax.
	         --r11 : Same as --rxi.
	         --a11 : Same as --axi.
	         --r15 : Same as --rxv.
	         --a15 : Same as --axv.

If you see a message 'Cannot contact a server.'
you have to specify the DDE server name in a file
`pdfddeservername.txt' which is in a directory
where pdfdde.exe exists,
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Please see comments in bin/win32/pdfddeservername.txt
and edit the file if necessary.


Probably the default value will be
AcroViewR20

I updated yeasterday as
AcroViewR21

for the latest free Adobe Reader.

In the case of non-free Adobe Acrobat, the name is such as
AcroViewA20

If you have non-free Adobe Acrobat, and you do not know the DDE
server name, try the following until you succeeds:

AcroView
AcroViewA10
AcroViewA11
AcroViewA15
AcroViewA17
AcroViewA18
AcroViewA19
AcroViewA20
AcroViewA21

Best,
Akira