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How to update Preview.app from the command line without losing focus on Mac OS X?

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I want to update Preview.app in the background from the command line without losing focus of my current window. I know that I can use the following to open/update the view of a file, but then I lose focus to the Preview.app. I guess there might be some clever AppleScript commands to do so but so fa…

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open -a Preview foo.pdf

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Meanwhile i was told the solution by a nice person called Guillermo commenting on my blog. The solution is to use: to update the pdf in the background.

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