Outright killing the EXE would be problematic for those of us who keep Adobe opened with the user manual and other documents while coding lilypond.
It should instead issue a "Close" request to Adobe telling it to close the file name if it's currently opened. Yes I believe Adobe Reader exposes a public Close method that can be called by getting an object reference to the running EXE. I think you can get an Adobe developers manual/kit from Adobe that would document how to do this prgrammatically maybe using Windows scripting host. Simon Dahlbacka wrote: > > Hi, > > After getting annoyed with the fact that lilypond fails if I happen to > keep > Acrobat Reader open (since it for some curious reason holds an exclusive > lock on the file) when running it I wondered if lilypond could kill > acrobat > reader, before trying to generate the pdf? > > It seems that it is possible using DDE (this is what texniccenter does). > > - does this belong in lilypond proper or in lilypond-mode (emacs) or > <insert > editor of choice>? > > - if all else fails I suppose I could create my own wrapper that took care > of the problem.. > > How are you guys dealing with this? > > regards, > > Simon > > PS. Using lilypond 2.8 on winXP > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/kill-off-acrobat-reader-before-generating-.pdf--t1462789.html#a3956067 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
