Reloading a File in Adobe Reader
When working on document in LaTeX that is going to wind up as a PDF (e.g. my thesis), I prefer to look at it in Adobe Reader. Acroread seems to give the best impression of what the document will actually look like. In practice, though, I use xpdf, because it has a “reload” capability that allows me to immediately view changes. Acroread doesn’t have this. However, someone very clever has come up with a workaround. I found out about it here, and it is evidently due Alexander Grahn.
Create a file called ~/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/JavaScripts/reload.js with:
reloadCurrentDoc = app.trustedFunction(
function(currentDoc) {
app.beginPriv();
currentDocView=currentDoc.viewState;
currentDocPath=currentDoc.path;
currentDoc.closeDoc();
currentDoc=app.openDoc(currentDocPath);
currentDoc.viewState=currentDocView;
app.endPriv();
});
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "reloadCurDoc",
cUser: "Reload",
cParent: "File",
cExec: "reloadCurrentDoc(event.target);",
cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);",
nPos: 0
});
app.addToolButton({
cName: "reloadCurDoc",
cExec: "reloadCurrentDoc(event.target);",
cToolText: "Reload the current document",
cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);",
cLabel: "Reload",
nPos: -1
});
Reopen Acroread and you now have a reload button!