[OS X TeX] epstopdf automatic updates to pdf

[André Bellaïche]

Le 2 déc. 06 à 00:45, Herbert Schulz a écrit :

>
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:14 PM, David Goldenberg wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    I am currently using TexShop with Gerben Wierda's teTex  
>> distribution on two computers, an ibook and a G5 PowerMac, both  
>> running OS X 10.4. The installation on the ibook does something  
>> that I find very convenient, but I can't figure out how to do it  
>> on the other installation.
>>
>> I regularly use pdfLaTeX and epstopdf. On the ibook, whenever an  
>> eps file is updated (usually by Adobe Illustrator) and the LaTeX  
>> file is run through pdfLaTeX, the pdf file is automatically  
>> updated as well.  On the other installation, however, the old pdf  
>> must be manually removed in order to create a new version.
>>
>> I suspect that there must an option that needs to be set somewhere  
>> or a file that needs to be updated in order to get the automatic  
>> updating to work.  But, I haven't been able to figure it out.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> David Goldenberg
>
> Howdy,
>
> I don't know if this solves it or not but... if you include  
> the .eps extension in the \includegraphics{fname.eps} I believe  
> the .eps file will be reprocessed into pdf every time you run it.  
> If you leave the extension off, \includegraphics{fname}, graphicx  
> will look for the pdf, not find it and then process the eps; after  
> the first processing the pdf will be there so it will go no further.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
>

This means that

- if you do not include the extension, and if you have made some  
change to fname.eps, you whall have to throw to the basket, manually,  
fname.pdf

- if you include the extension, the .eps file will be reprocessed  
into pdf at every run.

A better behaviour would be to test if some .eps file has already  
processed into pdf or not, since it last revision. This requires  
maintaining some table in a separate file, but it would be very  
useful by saving much time of waiting in front of the screen.

André Bellaïche


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