Howto update Preview.app from the command line without loosing focus on OSX ?

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Published on 2010-03-24T17:22:03Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 18:53 UTC
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Hello,

i want to update Preview.app in the background from the command line without loosing focus of my current window. I know that i can use the following to open/update the view of a file, but than i loose focus to the Preview.app.

open -a Preview foo.pdf

I guess there might be some clever Apple Script commands to do so but so far i didn't find the right one.

Alternatively i would be interested into transfering the focus back to my current app directly after the update. I need this in order to update Preview.app's view of a pdf through a vi autocmd after i update the pdf according to changes in a tex file i am editing. Here is an example of what i want to achive but using Ubuntu and evince.

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