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From: Andrei Popescu on 14 May 2010 13:20
On Fri,14.May.10, 15:32:13, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >
> > I find it interesting that Acroread's behavior is different in Linux.
> > The programmers of the Linux version seem to be aware of *nix standard
> > practice. This is a good thing, I think.
> I totally agree with you. I was so suprised that acroread shown no error
> under Linux that I thought there was a bug. It often happens to modify a
> PDF and compile the source files, having forgotten the fact that the PDF
> viewer is still open with the PDF.

At least evince (but I think other pdf viewers as well) will even notice
the file has changed and refresh automatically. Acroread is lacking
here.

Regards,
Andrei
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From: Merciadri Luca on 14 May 2010 13:30
Yes, but the problem with evince is that it is a basic PDF reader.
Acrobat reader includes many completely unimportant functionalities, but
an important functionality as the automatic refresh is not implemented
in it, when it is implemented in very simple PDF readers, such as evince.

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,14.May.10, 15:32:13, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>>> I find it interesting that Acroread's behavior is different in Linux.
>>> The programmers of the Linux version seem to be aware of *nix standard
>>> practice. This is a good thing, I think.
>>>
>> I totally agree with you. I was so suprised that acroread shown no error
>> under Linux that I thought there was a bug. It often happens to modify a
>> PDF and compile the source files, having forgotten the fact that the PDF
>> viewer is still open with the PDF.
>>
>
> At least evince (but I think other pdf viewers as well) will even notice
> the file has changed and refresh automatically. Acroread is lacking
> here.
>


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From: Stefan Monnier on 14 May 2010 15:10
My recommendation is to stay way from acroread which handles this
use-case very poorly.


Stefan "who happens to use pdflatex instead but that makes no
difference in this regard anyway"


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From: Sjoerd Hardeman on 14 May 2010 18:20
Op 14-05-10 19:22, Merciadri Luca schreef:
> Yes, but the problem with evince is that it is a basic PDF reader.
> Acrobat reader includes many completely unimportant functionalities, but
> an important functionality as the automatic refresh is not implemented
> in it, when it is implemented in very simple PDF readers, such as evince.
There are many very proper pdf viewers that handle the auto-refresh very
well. Since pdf got ISO certified, many apps included functionality like
forms. I use okular and kpdf, which do a very good job in rendering also
the complex documents with new pdf stuff (animated transitions,
"animated gif"-like behaviour etcetera etcetera. Acrobat does so as
well, but is just not convenient to use for documents you're currently
texxing.

Sjoerd

From: Merciadri Luca on 15 May 2010 06:50
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> There are many very proper pdf viewers that handle the auto-refresh very
> well. Since pdf got ISO certified, many apps included functionality like
> forms. I use okular and kpdf, which do a very good job in rendering also
> the complex documents with new pdf stuff (animated transitions,
> "animated gif"-like behaviour etcetera etcetera. Acrobat does so as
> well, but is just not convenient to use for documents you're currently
> texxing.
>
Thanks.

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