Dear gang, In M$-Windows (and probably unix as well) Acrobat/Reader has the very irritating feature such that, if called from the command line, it forgets its last position and resizes itself to the default position, somewhere in the middle of the screen. This makes --autopdf useless if one wants (like me) to have Acrobat always open up in the same corner of my screen's real estate each time. WinEdt opens Acrobat properly but since I'm moving away from that (no unicode/bidi support) I tried automating things in batch files etc. After hours of struggle I finally learned that clicking on a shortcut to Acrobat/Reader works while running it from the command line will never work right... ...unless one activates the .LNK extension in the system control panel. See http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1111214434?s Now --autopdf depends on pdfopen.exe, so I can't configure it apparently (tested pdfopen.exe directly). Can pdfopen.exe be recompiled so that it opens Adobe in the last-opened position like a lnk shortcut does? For what it's worth something like

"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.lnk" foo.pdf

will work in a batch/make file in the meantime. But it would be nice if texexec -autopdf did the same thing. Any thoughts? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/