Re: Problem with WinEdt/MikTeX/Acrobat Reader X interaction

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:44:14PM +0000, Crampton, Jason wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My employer has recently given me a new laptop running Windows 7, WinEdt 5.5, MikTeX 2.9 and Acrobat Reader X.  Having compiled a LaTeX source file to pdf, WinEdt opens Acrobat Reader (as usual), but then an error message is generated and the file "Acrobat OpenDoc.edt" opens in WinEdt in which the following line is highlighted:  DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroview","control",0).  This line is part of the following block:
> 
> :Exit:: ----------------------------------------------------------
>   // Just in case ...
>   Run('%$("AcroRead"); "%P\%N.pdf"');
>   ProcessMessages;
>   // DDE: Required for Adobe 8!
>   DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroview","control",0);
>   DDEExe('[FileOpen("%P\%N.pdf")]');
>   DDEExe('[DocOpen("%P\%N.pdf")]');
>   DDEExe('[DocOpen("%P\%N.pdf")]');
>   DDEExe('[FileOpen("%P\%N.pdf")]');
>   DDEExe('[AppShow()]');
>   DDEClose;
>   ProcessMessages;

Try replacing acroview with acroViewR10 The R is for Reader, the 10
for the version. Disclaimer: this replacement worked for
TeXnicCenter, but I didn't test with winedt.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg

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