A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Happy new year, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: refreshpdf Author's name: Claus Gerhardt Location on CTAN: /support/refreshpdf Summary description: Refreshpdf refreshes a pdf file opened in Acrobat (Mac OS X) License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Refreshpdf is an Applescript that takes the path of a pdf file as argument and then opens the file in Acrobat. If the file is already open in Acrobat, then Acrobat is told to close and reopen the file and to go to the same page that was displayed in the closed file.
The Applescript can also be called from the command line by a shell script refreshpdf. Refreshpdf only works on MacOS X. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/refreshpdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=refreshpdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .