[XeTeX] Low-level diagnostic ("fwrite") generated by XeTeX

[Barry MacKichan]

What you said would be correct if Adobe Reader read the entire file into 
memory. I assume it does not always do this. If it reads only part of 
the file, and another app modified the file, disaster would ensue.

One way around this is to write a script that takes the file it is 
passed and copies it to the temp directory and then opens Acrobat Reader 
on the copy. You can then call this script whenever you would have 
called Acrobat Reader. The original file will be locked only while it is 
being copied.

Your temp directory will eventually get a lot of garbage in it, but the 
script could check if files are locked and, if not, delete them (the 
unlocked copies). Or, you can just occasionally clean out the temp 
directory.

--Barry MacKichan


Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Since, AFAIK, Adobe Reader doesn't change files (it is a reader not
> writer), it shouldn't lock the file in the first place. This what other
> document viewers (Evince here) does, actually it also recognize that the
> file has been updated and reload it.
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> Regards,
>  Khaled
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