通过批处理脚本（.bat）关闭pdf文件

Question

I use a windows batch file .bat for running latex command to create a pdf. To open the final pdf file, I wrote

pdflatex %2
START "" %2.pdf

Where %2 is the filename I passed it as argument. Problem is, whenever, I run the script, I have to manually close the pdf file and run the script. I want to add a command to first close the opened pdf and then run latex command and then open it

<CLOSE THE PDF FILE>
pdflatex %2
START "" %2.pdf

I didn't find a CLOSE command in the list of available commands, Information on batch files

Answer 1

I highly recommend SS64 for a list of batch commands. The command you're looking for is taskkill . I don't know pdflatex appears in the task manager, but the code is going to be something along the lines of

taskkill /IM acrord32.exe

Replace acrord32.exe with whatever it appears as in the task manager. You may also need to add the /F flag before the /IM to force close the program.