Preview.app only auto-refreshes if you alt-tab to it.

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Published on 2011-01-12T01:58:53Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 2:55 UTC
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I'm working on a program that generates an image. I can keep the image open in Preview and when the image changes, Preview refreshes it, but only when I alt-tab (sorry, command-tab) to it. I'd like to keep the image in view and have it auto-refresh without touching it. Is that possible?

(One ridiculous way I've found to do this is with a script that converts the image to a PDF file which I can keep open in Skim.app (a PDF reader) which has that ability.)

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