Bo Peng wrote:
> That is for acrobat reader only, and under windows only. Using
> different temp files will solve the problem for all potential viewers,
> under all OSs.
The problem exists only under Windows.
It is maybe acrobat reader only, but it is even worse under linux.
That is to say:
1. under windows: you are not allowed to view if acrobat reader is
previewing a previous version. (You at least get an error message).
2. under linux: you are allowed to view, and the file has actually
been re-generated, but acrobat reader does not switch to the newer
version. This is, in my opinion, even worse.
Sure - and this is a good argument against acrobat. It is different.
I still think using different temp files is a good solution, I do not
see a good counter-argument till now.
Using the same file everytine works fine with the xpdf reader.
There is no acrobat on non-intel linux anyway, so, having
an opteron at home I prefer xpdf everywhere. And having xpdf
reload the pdf-file is much faster than re-running acrobat anyway.
But surely the problem is easily solvable by a script - those who
wants acrobat for some reason can have a script that renames
the file and then invoke the acrobat executable. This trick
works with windows as well as linux, and of course such scripts
could be distributed with lyx.
Helge Hafting
