Re: [AUCTeX] auctex calling acrobat reader

[Ralf Angeli]

* Sivaram Neelakantan (2008-04-13) writes:

> On Emacs-22.2 and auctex, how do I configure auctex to call the win32
> acrobat reader to open the generated file?
>
> Setting it to acrord32 didn't work. 
>
> TeX-output-view-style is a variable defined in `tex.el'.
> Its value is 
> (("^dvi$" "^pstricks$\\|^pst-\\|^psfrag$" "dvips %d -o && start \"\" %f")
>  ("^dvi$" "." "yap -1 %dS %d")
>  ("^pdf$" "." "acrord32 %o")
>  ("^html?$" "." "start \"\" %o"))

What happens if you try to view the PDF file?  Is "acrord32" actually
the name of the executable?  Is "acrord32" in PATH?

If Adobe Reader is your standard reader you can also use `start' like in
the entry for HTML output.

> and in the archives there were some mention of using pdfopen and
>  pdfclose (of MikTex) to handle the Reader lock issue.  Can that be
>  set through auctex too?

Probably.  I've never tried it.  You will likely have to call at least
pdfclose somewhere in `TeX-command-list'.

-- 
Ralf