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I am editing LaTeX on my Windows Vista systems. Which I am using pdflatex to generate PDF file constantly.
My PDF viewer is Adobe Acrobat Professional 7, I have to close and open the same file each time to get the new look.
Is there any way to keep the PDF viewer refreshing the PDF pages once it changed?
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Current Adobe Reader 9.4. 2 allows you to press Ctrl + R to reload an opened PDF.
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Adobe Reader and/or Adobe Acrobat are notorious for not supporting auto-refreshing the view of a PDF which changed on disk. If you need that, you should switch your viewer. SumatraPDF is available for Windows and does auto-refresh the view. Should it not work at times, you can simply type 'r' to force a refresh...
It will automatically refresh when the pdf is updated. It's also portable, which is nice. Show activity on this post. The viewer does not regularly check changes on disk, so short answer: no (unfortunately)
Right-click on the thumbnail of any PDF file. On the menu, click Properties. A new dialog box will appear. In the first subsection, the text “Opens with:” indicates which PDF viewer is set as your default. Click the Change button. Select Adobe Acrobat DC or Reader from the list as your default.
You can view your PDF by clicking either View in VSCode tab or View in web browser in the LaTeX Workshop menu. When you update and save the tex file, it will update the PDF file automatically. LaTeX menu.
From a question on super user
SumatraPDF is free, for Windows, and plays nicely with LaTeX. It will automatically refresh when the pdf is updated.
It's also portable, which is nice.
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The viewer does not regularly check changes on disk, so short answer: no (unfortunately)
You could however, use your browser to see the pdf file, inside your own html 'webpage' that regularly refreshes the page using javascript.
this is how (including buttons for switching between manual and automatic refreshing):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>my pdf</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var timer = null;
function refresh(){
var d = document.getElementById("pdf"); // gets pdf-div
d.innerHTML = '<embed src="myPdfFile.pdf" width="700" height="575">';
}
function autoRefresh(){
timer = setTimeout("autoRefresh()", 2000);
refresh();
}
function manualRefresh(){
clearTimeout(timer);
refresh();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button onclick="manualRefresh()">manual refresh</button>
<button onclick="autoRefresh()">auto refresh</button>
<div id="pdf"></div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">refresh();</script>
</html>
Just save this code as e.g. 'pdfrefresher.html' in the same folder as your pdf. As src of the embed object you use only the filename, e.g. 'myPdfFile.pdf' (not disk or directory).
In the code, you can adjust the width and height of the embedded object and the timeout (in milliseconds).
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