Over the past couple of days, I have made a substantial number of small
changes to an MS Word document; on each occasion, as well as saving in
MS Word format (.docx) I have also saved the document as Adobe PDF
(.pdf). In the course of so doing, I have realised that MS Word can
instruct Adobe A
On Thu, 27 May 2021, Philip Taylor wrote:
> the course of so doing, I have realised that MS Word can instruct Adobe
> Acrobat (and probably Adobe Reader) to close the PDF and then re-open it
> once the changes have been made. Is there any reason why the (x)dvipdfm(x)
> back-end to XeTeX cannot [be
On Thu, 27 May 2021, Philip Taylor wrote:
> msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> > Is this a function of the PDF writer "instructing" the reader to reload,
> > or is it something the PDF reader does independently?
>
> Empirical observation suggests the former. If it were the latter, then
> would it (
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
Seems like it will need some kind of Windows-specific handling to
resolve, then.
Yes, that was my belief, Matthew.
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On 27/05/2021 18:44, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2021, Philip Taylor wrote:
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
Is this a function of the PDF writer "instructing" the reader to reload,
or is it something the PDF reader does independently?
Empirical observation suggests the form
On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 14:21, Philip Taylor
wrote:
> Over the past couple of days, I have made a substantial number of small
> changes
>
to an MS Word document; on each occasion, as well as saving in MS Word
> format
>
(.docx) I have also saved the document as Adobe PDF (.pdf). In the course
> o
