On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote:
Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the
file from
being over-written.
What ones?
But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.)
So I
guess the solution is not to use Adobe :)
``Most pdf viewers'' was probably a bit strong --- probably should've
said something like, ``The most commonly used pdf viewer, Adobe
Acrobat (and probably others, incl. apparently PDF-Viewer)''
As Alan noted, SumatraPDF is one Windows viewer which doesn't --- one
can also work around this by viewing the local .pdf using the Acrobat
pdf plug-in in a web-browser and re-loading it.
Unfortunately SumatraPDF doesn't handle certain unusual .pdf sizes
well and doesn't handle noticing the overwriting and reloading
automatically as Helge notes is highly desirable. It also opens a new
instance of itself when re-invoked --- I handle this by just always
closing it when switching back to an editor.
William
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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
