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Howto make pdfxcview.exe not lock PDF files when opening them

or

force pdflatex ignore locks (and thus be able to overwrite PDF while generating content with pdflatex or simply manipulating content (streams) of PDF files manually with an editor like vim) ?

See also this thread

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PDF-XChange View supports a command line option 

pdfxcview /A "nolock=yes=OpenParameters" document.pdf

which opens a PDF file called document.pdf lock - free. In this case PDF-XChange View asks on change if the document should be reloaded. You can then enable automatic reloading on change. Useful when working on PDF files and frequently checking created output.

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