On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 03.03.2016 um 16:45 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Juan C. Estévez wrote:
>
>> 'join' then don´t opens the chapter 7. So one must close the pdf
>> before clicking a new link.
>> That's right?
>
> That depends on the particular PDF viewer. With Acrobat Reader, you're
> right. If we passed the "/n" switch to Reader that ought to open a new
> instance of the program in which the PDF is opened at the second
> destination, but I'm not sure that's what the user would want (multiple
> copies of Reader running).
I think the situation is similar with pdf-previews of TeX-documents. One
of the reasons I try to avoid Acrobat on Windows is because the
view-refresh is so much better with other lightweight PDF programs
(SumatraPDF for example).
But some Acrobat-handling tricks might be learned from the TeX editors
on Windows. For example it could be that they tell Acrobat to close the
program and the re-open it in the running instance.
Hmm, good point. I guess the TeX editors must be using the DDE
(Dynamic Data Exchange) API. We could try that.
Allin