Am 03.03.2016 um 19:01 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
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.
This is probably not up to date, but perhaps useful anyway, they talk
about a "file lock problem" with Acrobat:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/WindowsInstaller-pdfview
-s