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 either by the
(x)dvipdfm(x) back-end of XeTeX, or by TeXworks ...
pdfclose --help shows on Windows:
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Usage:
pdfopen --file <filename> [--page <page>]
pdfopen [--page <page>] <filename>
Opens <filename> (at page <page> if available)
in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
pdfclose --file <filename>
pdfclose <filename>
Closes <filename> in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
pdfclose --all
Closes all documents in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Beware: only documents opened by `pdfopen' can be closed
by `pdfclose'.
Option:
--rx : Prefer the server Adobe Reader X.
--ax : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat X.
--rxi : Prefer the server Adobe Reader XI.
--axi : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat XI.
--rxv : Prefer the server Adobe Reader XV.
--axv : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat XV.
--r10 : Same as --rx.
--a10 : Same as --ax.
--r11 : Same as --rxi.
--a11 : Same as --axi.
--r15 : Same as --rxv.
--a15 : Same as --axv.
If you see a message 'Cannot contact a server.'
you have to specify the DDE server name in a file
`pdfddeservername.txt' which is in a directory
where pdfdde.exe exists,
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Please see comments in bin/win32/pdfddeservername.txt
and edit the file if necessary.
Probably the default value will be
AcroViewR20
I updated yeasterday as
AcroViewR21
for the latest free Adobe Reader.
In the case of non-free Adobe Acrobat, the name is such as
AcroViewA20
If you have non-free Adobe Acrobat, and you do not know the DDE
server name, try the following until you succeeds:
AcroView
AcroViewA10
AcroViewA11
AcroViewA15
AcroViewA17
AcroViewA18
AcroViewA19
AcroViewA20
AcroViewA21
Best,
Akira
