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<div>Unlike UNIX-based OS's, Windows has problems writing to
files that are open in another</div>
<div>program, so Windows editors and AcroRead support
"DynamicDataExchange" which allows</div>
<div>a program that wants to write a PDF to ask AcroRead to
close, and then open the file after</div>
<div>it has been written. WinEDT can be configured to close
the Adobe PDF viewer so that TeX <br>
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<div>software can write a new PDF. On Windows, TeX Live
provides pdfopen and pdfclose <br>
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<div>programs (I think originally from fptex) that are useful
in scripts (to bracket programs that <br>
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<div>create a pdf file):</div>
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<div>> type sample2e.cmd<br>
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<div>pdfclose sample2e.pdf</div>
<div>lualatex sample2e</div>
<div>pdfopen sample2e.pdf<br>
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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 :<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">C:\Windows\System32>pdfclose "Hoi-An
vegan menu (separate pages).pdf"<br>
pdfclose: non existent file Hoi-An vegan menu (separate pages).pdf<br>
Cannot contact a server.<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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