I'm sorry if this exact question has already been asked, but the similar duplicates I've found didn't have the same phrasing. Therefore, I'm asking a new question…
I have WinEdt 7.0 on Windows 7 and I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.0. Whenever I open WinEdt and I compile a file, everything works like a charm. If I re-compile without closing Adobe, the compiling fails and I get an error:
Cannot Open DDE Link to:
"C:\Progam Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe"
Service: AcroviewA11
Topic: Control
DDEOpen("%$('PDF-View')","%$('Acro-DDE_Service);",…
All of the problems I've found on the site have been related to changing acroview to acroviewA11, but I wasn't able to find these anywhere.
Can someone help me?
UPDATE: Since I can't post answers for another 6 hours, and I have a high probability of forgetting to return here and accept an answer, I'll post my exact actions here.
After going to Options Interface->Advanced Configuration->PDF Macros->Adobe Blues, and making the recommended changes from AcroviewA11 to Acroview according to this answer, I executed the macro by going to Macros->Execute Current Macro (or it can be done using Ctrl+Shift+F9). At this point, I checked and it worked! The error occurred because I run Adobe 9 and not Adobe 11; however, I'm not sure what the precise cause of it was.
Best Answer
The problem with Acrobat is that they changed the naming convention for DDE commands. For the version 11 you have to use
AcroviewA11, for version 9 and before it was and has to beAcroview.In question pdfopen-pdfclose user @user24452 showed how to do this. My answer showed how you can integrate also SumatraPDF into WinEdt.
As you wrote in your comment, after changing
AcroviewA11toAcroviewuse Ctrl+Shift+F9.