On 07/15/2014 03:58 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
Am 15.07.2014 15:56, schrieb Knute Snortum:
Any other thoughts?
Nothing constructive, only the observation (for the record) that this is
a Windows-only issue.
Just for the record, it's not a Windows issue rather than an
Adobe-Reader-on-Windows issue (see, e.g., [1]). For some reason I never
understood, it opens the file in a blocking mode on Windows. Same issue
for, e.g., LaTeX.
Closing it might technically be possible, but it's not nice to kill
other processes. There are different options to replace content
(rewrite the file, or delete and move a new one to the same place), and
they do make a difference, but AFAIK, Adobe does not play nicely with
both. And what you really want is that your reader auto-refreshes when
new content arrives, which requires some support on the viewer side.
In short: it's a well-known annoyance that is beyond the PDF creator's
domain.
Fortunately, other readers exist which don't lock the file and even take
notice of file updates automagically. SumatraPDF [2] is the one
recommended most often.
HTH,
Alexander
[1]
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1329/automatically-updating-pdf-reader-for-windows
[2] http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html
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