On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/25 5:24 PM, Alexander Dunlap wrote: > > I think what I really want is for LyX to not overwrite the final file > > when it creates the intermediate versions, and only when it is done with > > all of the necessary LaTeX runs copy the compiled file to the "final" PDF > > location. I will look into creating a converter specification that > > could achieve > > this. > > I think it would be difficult to do exactly that. When pdflatex is run, > it over-writes the PDF file. It's only by examining the logs after that > happens that we know whether to do another run. So I think you will need > to copy the old PDF. In principle, you could rename the tex file itself, > and then run pdflatex. But I expect that will be hard to get right. > > Riki > > I created a new output format called "PDF (no flicker)" with output extension ".pdfnoflicker" and created a converter from "PDF (pdflatex)" to "PDF (noflicker)" with the converter command being simply "cp $$i $$o" and it seems to do exactly what I want -- it waits for the conversion from LaTeX to PDF (pdflatex) to finish and then copies it once to the ".pdfnoflicker" extension. I don't mind that the output extension is not ".pdf" because I'm only using it for previewing anyway. Thanks a lot!! best, Alex
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