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 <p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk> 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 > > > 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 either by the (x)dvipdfm(x) back-end of XeTeX, or by TeXworks ... > -- > Philip Taylor >