Re: open pdf read-only or similiar

Tom wrote:
Hello NG,
is it possible somehow to prevent Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro from blocking
the access to an pdf file, e.g. open read-only or something similar?

Background: I use OpenOffice.org to create pdfs and view them in Acr,
before recreating of the pdf I have to close the pdf in Acr and afterwards reopen it - which is of course very annoying.

So again, is there a possibility to spare this closing and reopening
with Acrobat or any other pdf viewer for Windows XP?

Adobe have consistently refused to add this feature, and no-one can
understand why (unless something has changed recently that I haven't
seen). Several delegations from the graphic arts business (including
some of the LaTeX developers) have met with Adobe, and there seems to
have been no understanding at all of the problem by Adobe. Very weird.

However, this popped up of comp.text.tex the other day (I've chopped the headers). Unix-type systems only, though, but the README does explain why it can't work under Windows.

Which still doesn't explain Adobe's obtuseness. If Windows does not allow to overwrite a document currently open in another application, it is not beyond the wit of humankind to open the PDF file, render it, and the close the file so that it can be overwritten, and then watch the file and re-read when necessary.

Mind you, if you're still using Windows for document-processing applications then now is a good time to look at moving to a more usable platform: there is a wide choice :-)

///Peter

From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@xxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: CTAN Update: AcroReloadPDF
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:45:11 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <mailman.40.1233593113.3805.ctan-ann@xxxxxxxx>

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the

acroreloadpdf

package, a Reload-the-current-PDF utility for Adobe Reader on Unix systems.

Location on CTAN: /support/acroreloadpdf/
License type: pd

Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The reload utility can now be invoked from the keyboard by
pressing
<Alt>+<F> followed by <d>
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This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/acroreloadpdf/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=acroreloadpdf
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf

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