Re: Refreshing Acrobat File

Ana Belen Barragans Martinez <[email protected]> Wed, 11 May 2005 08:57:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.latex.prosper.user
Message-ID <1115794628.26799.13.camel@garfield>
El mar, 10-05-2005 a las 23:38 -0700, James Frye escribió:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have a trick for quickly seeing updating acrobat to changes
> > in a pdf file? I'm using Acrobat (5 or 7) on Linux and it complains
> > whenever I change my pdf, so I have to close acrobat and reload it
> > whenever I recompile my prosper document. Is there a clever way to get
> > acrobat to refresh the file (or another pdf viewer than handles the
> > overlays, etc from prosper?). Ideally this would be some command I could
> > run in my prosper script.
> 
> ggv will do this automatically.  If you have it running on a file, and the 
> file changes, it picks up the fact that it has changed, and redisplays it. 
> There's no need for changes to your script, links from editor, or anything 
> like that.
> 
> It does have other problems: not always responding to keys, limited 
> magnification, etc, but for just general WYSIWYG editing, it suffices.
> 
> James

xpdf works fine on linux. It automatically updates the changes as well
and so far I haven't found any difference with acrobat.

Belén



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