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Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?



Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When compiling any .tex document using the route latex -> dvips ->
> ps2pdf, I get a PDF. Normal, but the problem is that if I the PDF is
> already opened (e.g. because I was reading the version of the document
> before having modified and compiled it) when the compilation and the
> whole process ends, the opened PDF is blank, i.e. the current page
> becomes white, and every page I go at is white. If I then re-open the
> document, I find the new version of my PDF.
>
> I would like to know how this process actually works. For me, it looks
> like the ps2pdf tool creates the PDF from scratch, and overwrites the
> old PDF. But why am I receiving no warning message from acroread?
> Anyway, acroread seems not to be locking the file, or, if so, ps2pdf
> forces the writing.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
Posting is so slow that I have already obtained the answer through
comp.text.tex. So please do not take the OP into account.

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