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 enhanced to] do the same ?
Is this a function of the PDF writer "instructing" the reader to reload, or is it something the PDF reader does independently? On my Linux system, the "okular" PDF reader automatically reloads when a file is changed, regardless of what software wrote the file. It works with xdvipdfmx and everything else, because the notification comes from a general operating system feature invoked by the reader without the writer being involved. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
