George N. White III wrote:
Unlike UNIX-based OS's, Windows has problems writing to files that are
open in another
program, so Windows editors and AcroRead support "DynamicDataExchange"
which allows
a program that wants to write a PDF to ask AcroRead to close, and then
open the file after
it
Philip Taylor wrote:
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 :
C:\Windows\System32>pdfclose "Hoi-An vegan me
Am Fri, 28 May 2021 11:41:32 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor:
> 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 :
>
>>
Ulrike Fischer wrote:
use
pdfclose --help
It will tell you how to setup a DDE-name. They change every year. I
have currently AcroviewR20
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'", w
Hi,
Scanned through the thread, didn't see this link, it seems it's been a long
term issue...
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/85867/pdfopen-pdfclose-dont-work-with-acrobat-adobe-reader-xi
Paul
On Friday, 28 May 2021, Philip Taylor
wrote:
> Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
> use
>
> pdfclose --h
Am Fri, 28 May 2021 12:44:20 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor:
> Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
>> use
>> pdfclose --help
>>
>> It will tell you how to setup a DDE-name. They change every year. I
>> have currently AcroviewR20
>
>
> Thank you Ulrike — in fact, I had just done that, but I learned as a
> sid
On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 08:45, Philip Taylor
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 f
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 eith
