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

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Published on 2010-03-24T17:22:03Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 1:13 UTC
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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.

open -a Preview foo.pdf

I guess there might be some clever AppleScript 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 application directly after the update. I need this in order to update Preview.app's view of a PDF file through a vi autocmd after I update the PDF file according to changes in a TeX file I am editing. Here is an example of what I want to achieve but using Ubuntu and evince.

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