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TeXnicCenter on Windows: Building Problems

When writing a paper I keep a YAP viewer open and constantly overwrite the contents. I am trying to get the same behaviour for a presentation but the system (beamer/pdflatex within TeXnicCentre running miktex 2.9) won't allow me.

I understand there is a problem with adobe so I installed another pdf viewer (foxit reader) but am still running into the same problem.

So - how to make the system overwrite the pdf in a smooth way?

Thanks!

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  • If your PDF is open in something like Adobe Reader nothing else can write to it. You need to make sure that you've not left the file open by accident. – Joseph Wright Jun 14 '12 at 17:33
  • Hi, thanks for the answer. Clarification question: does this refer only to Adobe or other programs as well? – Felix Goldberg Jun 14 '12 at 17:38
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    I think this is an MS Windows specific problem as I have never seen this on either linux or OSX (in fact under linux where adobe reader can reload a file simply, I always leave the file open in the viewer and reload it when I have changed something). – ArTourter Jun 14 '12 at 17:38
  • @ArTourter File locking is something that happens with Adobe Reader (amongst other programs) on Windows, but not on Linux or Mac OS X. – Joseph Wright Jun 14 '12 at 17:40
  • I use SumatraPDF as one of the outstanding Windows/LaTeX PDF viewers with same setup as you have. It works seamlessly with TeXnicCenter. – percusse Jun 14 '12 at 17:41
  • @FelixGoldberg I cannot give a general answer (it depends on the program), but Adobe Reader is unusual in locking PDF files. – Joseph Wright Jun 14 '12 at 17:41
  • @percusse: I installed SumatraPDF and got this error message "error loading "whatever.tex". – Felix Goldberg Jun 14 '12 at 18:50
  • @percusse: I installed SumatraPDF and got this error message "error loading "whatever.tex". What could go wrong? The only thing I changed in TexNic's profile was the path to the compiler. Should I have tinkered with the options too? Thanks! – Felix Goldberg Jun 14 '12 at 18:55
  • @FelixGoldberg: SumatraPDF is not a different compiler (that is still going to be pdflatex), but a different PDF viewer. – Caramdir Jun 14 '12 at 19:16
  • Indeed, as Caramdir commented it's another PDF viewer like Acrobat Reader. So consider it as a duplicate for Yap not pdflatex. – percusse Jun 14 '12 at 22:00
  • @percusse: Thanks, now it works like a charm!! So much easier to work now. – Felix Goldberg Jun 15 '12 at 10:56
  • @percusse: Can you write an answer? – Caramdir Jun 15 '12 at 15:24
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    @FelixGoldberg Do you mind if we close this question as a duplicate of http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36919/3235 – percusse Jun 15 '12 at 15:32

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