Tom Furie wrote: > And, just for the record, what was the answer? > == This is *normal* UNIX file handling. Yes, ps2pdf does indeed recreate the PDF from scratch and unlinks the old PDF's inode(s). Acroread does not know that (thus no messages), and no it does not lock the file, just hangs onto the old inode (maybe), which becomes effectively invalid once ps2pdf recreates the PDF file. == == Acrobat Reader on Linux systems does not lock the file. But the file is not reloaded automatically. You can reload the file from File -> Reload (Alt+f d). Alternatively you could try something automated like <http://forums.adobe.com/thread/395299 <http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://forums.adobe.com/thread/395299&usg=AFQjCNEKcDABBKaXl33v3QRJ2p13LNSLpQ>>. == == in fact, on linux, acroread now has the ability to reread the file. type Ctrl-R and the changed file will be reread. on windows, acroread doesn't have this ability. so if the OP is on windows, he might want to switch to another pdf reader. == -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. So close, yet so far.
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