[Tex/LaTex] Acrobat Pro DC and WinEdt

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I recently installed Acrobat Pro DC. Now, everytime I have to manually close my pdf document before I run WinEdt. If my document is open, and I run WinEdt, the file PDFCLoseDoc.edt opens up and highlights line 52 

DDEOpen("%$('PDF-View')","%$('Acro-DDE_Service');","%$('Acro-DDE_Topic');");

If I also try to do a search now from WinEdt to PDF, the PDF Search.edt opens up and highlights line 107 

DDEOpen("%$('PDF-View');","%$('Acro-DDE_Service');","%$('Acro-DDE_Topic');");

and gives me the error:

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How can I get WinEdt and Acrobat Pro DC to corporate as before when I had Acrobat 8?

Thanks.

Best Answer

UPDATE

WinEdt 9.1 build 20150713 now supports Adobe DC.

ORIGINAL ANSWER

Every couple of years the Adobe staff changes the way DDE works and informations written on Windows registry by their products...

To let WinEdt work with Acrobat DC (Acrobat or Reader), you have to open the Options Interface, go to "Advanced Configuration" -> "PDF Macros" and double-click on "Adobe Blues".

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A local copy of the file Adobe.edt gets opened. In this file, substitute the lines

  IfNum("%!1","%!2",">",>
   !`>
       LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader','   ');");>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Acrobat Reader','   ');");|);>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKCU','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader','   ');");|);>
    `,>
   !`>
       LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat','   ');");>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat','   ');");|);>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKCU','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat','   ');");|);>
    `);

with

  IfNum("%!1","%!2",">",>
   !`>
       LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader','   ');");>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Acrobat Reader','   ');");|);>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKCU','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader','   ');");|);>
       LetReg(4,"%@('HKCU','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC','   ');");>
       IfStr('%!4','','<>',!|LetReg(3,"DC");|);>
    `,>
   !`>
       LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat','   ');");>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKLM','SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat','   ');");|);>
       IfStr('%!3','','=',!|LetReg(3,"%@('HKCU','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat','   ');");|);>
       LetReg(4,"%@('HKCU','SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\2015','   ');");>
       IfStr('%!4','','<>',!|LetReg(3,"DC");|);>
    `);

and the line

  IfOK(!'GetTag(0,3);GetTag(1,4);',!'LetReg(3,"99999");LetReg(4,".0")');

with the lines

  IfOK(!'GetTag(0,3);GetTag(1,4);');
  IfStr('%!3','DC','=',!|LetReg(3,"15");LetReg(4,".0");|);

At this point save the file and restart WinEdt.

These changes will be incorporated in the next build of WinEdt.

Anyway, Acrobat is not really the best PDF viewer to work with TeX & friends.

I suggest you to install SumatraPDF and use it for TeX interaction. Note that you can keep .pdf files to be opened with Acrobat when double-clicking on them and use SumatraPDF when working with .tex files.

To do that, choose "Options" -> "Execution Modes" -> "PDF Viewer". There, click on "Alternative Viewer 1" and then "Apply".

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