CTAN update: xpdfopen
Date: April 19, 2010 10:43:39 AM CEST
the daemon had been alerted in advance of this (we've been discussing
what to do about the update)
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xpdfopen
> Author's name: Jim Diamond
> Location on CTAN: support/xpdfopen
> Summary description: A program to make Adobe Reader 9 re-open the file
> it is displaying
> License type: pd
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> pdfopen allows you to send Ctrl-R to a running Adobe Reader 9
> instance; the Ctrl-R causes AR9 to re-load the file it is displaying.
> It is particularly useful if your environment uutomatically calls this
> program after (re-)pdftex-ing your document.
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note that jim has now taken over maintenance of the package.
i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xpdfopen.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen/
the catalogue entry will change overnight (a wee bit more than usual)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
xpdfopen – Commands to control PDF readers, under X11
The command-line programs pdfopen and pdfclose allow you to control the X Window System version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader from the command line or from within a (shell) script. The programs work with Acrobat Reader 5, 7, 8 and 9 for Linux, xpdf and evince.
This version derives from one written by Fabrice Popineau for Microsoft operating systems.
| Package | xpdfopen |
| Version | 0.86 |
| Maintainer | Jim Diamond Taco Hoekwater (inactive) Fabrice Popineau (inactive) |