Re: Viewers without a "reload" command

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From: H.Merijn Brand
Subject: Re: Viewers without a "reload" command
Date: 14:17 on 11 Dec 2006
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:42:59 +0000, Robert Rothenberg <robrwo@xxxxx.xxx>
wrote:

> 
> I have the enviable task of creating an A1-sized poster in LaTeX. I prefer
> to proof-read the generated PDF or PostScript file.
> 
> Alas, gpdf and Acrobat Reader do not have a "reload" command. So I have to
> close the document and reload it after every change.  Tedious.

xpdf has 'r'

> How f***ing hard is it to implement a keyboard command like Ctrl-R to reload
> the document?
> 
> Evince has this feature, but (joy!) but it has layout problems with A1-sized
> pages.

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