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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.

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    The problem is probably that Reader locks the PDF for editing, so pdftex cannot change it. You could try Sumatra instead, this will auto-update the PDF if it changed. – Torbjørn T. Apr 13 '13 at 18:38
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    Welcome to TeX.sx! the answer http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/73817/6621 may be useful – cmhughes Apr 13 '13 at 18:40
  • I don't think I will mind switching PDF viewers, but I'm rather ignorant as to how I should change the WinEdt settings for a default viewer. And, I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the problem is relatively new. I installed an update for Adobe, perhaps 3 days ago (who knows how old the update was, though), and that was what started the error messages. – anon271828 Apr 13 '13 at 18:41
  • @cmhughes: I began reading with high hopes, but (at least according to the directions of that answer) my Adobe doesn't have a Protected Mode option. I went as far as to go to the help menu and perform a search query for "Protected Mode" with 0 results, and then I reduced the query to "Protected" with only 3 results, all of them unrelated. – anon271828 Apr 13 '13 at 18:45
  • @TorbjørnT.: I hadn't tagged you earlier because I assumed you would revisit and check on the status of my question. At any rate, the Adobe Acrobat I have doesn't have an option for Protected Mode (see previous comments). – anon271828 Apr 13 '13 at 19:24

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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 be Acroview.

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 AcroviewA11 to Acroview use Ctrl+Shift+F9.

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