[texhax] controlling pdf reader (was Re: beamer and "Read out loud")

Uwe Lueck uwe.lueck at web.de
Mon May 3 21:22:50 CEST 2010


Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond at acadiau.ca> wrote at 03.05.2010 15:12:37:
>On Mon, May  3, 2010 at 14:09 (+0200), Uwe Lueck wrote:
>>>> http://campus.fh-worms.de/~lueck/makeshow.htm
>
> This web page says
>	Mysteriously, xpdfopen  for the X Window System, (now) dealing
>	with the reloading feature of AR9, was updated on Apr 19,
>	2010. The same day, latexmk (see above) was updated.
>
>It's not really mysterious, I saw this discussion going on, the
>reference to xpdfopen, and did some updates.

I did not want to place an emoticon there, for the sake of the serious impression of the page.[1]

> Of possible interest to everyone reading this: I have further updated
> the code (with the help of very useful comments and patches from Peter
> Breitenlohner) and it now can be used to make AR5, AR7, AR8, AR9 and
> xpdf automagically reload a PDF file.  (To make it automagic, you need
> to have your system call xpdfopen after doing a tex run.)

Thanks a lot, added to my page. 

Cheers, 

    Uwe. 

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[1] chhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!


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