I use Sumatra PDF for that reason. It closes but watches the PDF, so a rerun of TeX simply works and triggers a reload in Sumatra.
Hartmut Von: XeTeX <xetex-bounces+hartmut.niemann=siemens....@tug.org> Im Auftrag von George N. White III Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Mai 2021 18:50 An: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex@tug.org> Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat/Reader, Microsoft Word, XeTeX, and (x)dvipdfm(x). On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 08:45, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk<mailto:p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk>> wrote: Ulrike Fischer wrote: use pdfclose --help